A blind pensioner who 'wanted to reach 100' died just weeks after she was scalded by the cup of tea she was drinking, a coroner's court has heard.

Margaret Eluned Roberts 'shouted in an urgent tone' after spilling the hot black tea on her while at the nursing home where she lived.

An inquest heard how a burn she suffered contributed to her catching a chest infection.

She died about five weeks after the ordeal.

But a senior coroner concluded that the 99-year-old's death was accidental.

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Kate Robertson, senior coroner for north west Wales, found Mrs Roberts died from pneumonia and cellulitis secondary to a burn, with old age, asthma and ischaemic heart disease as contributory factors.

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