Husband 'in disbelief' at wife's death

A HUSBAND has told a court how his wife died just seven days after doctors insisted she had no more than a viral infection.

Rodger Winsborough, from Kelty, Fife, said his wife Joanne was sent home from her local GPs' practice and told to take paracetamol and ibruprofen.

When she didn't believe that advice she went to hospital, where doctors also dismissed her condition. Mrs Winsborough, 34, a mother of two, started feeling ill on Friday 10 April, 2009. She died the following Friday.

Her husband, 35, said: "I couldn't believe that a woman who was fit seven days before was dead. I couldn't get my head around it. Seven days before she was fine."

Mr Winsborough was speaking at Dunfermline Sheriff Court yesterday on the first day of a conjoined Fatal Accident Inquiry into the deaths of his wife and that of former RAF medic Bill Anderson, 53, from Kirkcaldy, Fife, the first Scot with no underlying health problems to die of swine flu. Mr Anderson died in September 2009.

Mr Winsborough said: "She went to hospital as the last line of defence. If they'd run the tests they do on people who usually go in like that I'm not saying they'd have saved her but she never got the treatment."