A retired hotel manager who was refused an ambulance when he dialled 999 was found dead when police broke into his home the next day.

John Barker, 65, was told his pancreatitis was not life-threatening and that he should contact his GP to get painkillers, an inquest heard.

Recording a narrative verdict, York coroner Donald Coverdale said there were three lost opportunities by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service control room to get Mr Barket to hospital.

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