Using her mobile in the bath killed my wife...we need more warnings

Husband's call over phone use near water while they're charging Heartache as inquest told how mum Ann-Marie, 46, electrocuted

- BY SEAN MCCARTHAIGH

THE husband of a woman electrocuted in the bath by a charging mobile phone has called for more warnings about the dangers of using them near water.

Mother-of-three Ann-Marie O'Gorman, 46, was pronounced dead at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin on October 30 last year.

She had been rushed there by ambulance after her husband had found her unresponsive in an en suite bathroom at their family home.

Joe O'Gorman told Dublin District Coroner's Court yesterday he had left home at around 6.40pm to drop the couple's youngest daughter Megan to her first disco in Portmarnock.

He told coroner Crona Gallagher he had a brief 23-second call with his wife at 7.58pm while driving home at a time he believed she might have already been in the bath.

After arriving home to Shanliss Avenue, Santry, Mr O'Gorman said he went into the bathroom and found Ann-Marie lying on her side in the bath with no sign of any movement.

Mr O'Gorman said his wife was also unresponsive when he opened one of her eyelids.

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At that point, he noticed her iPhone and a cable in the bath which he grabbed and threw in a sink.

Mr O'Gorman said he got a small electric shock as he was lifting her out of the bath before calling to his eldest daughter to call emergency services.

While giving CPR to her, Mr O'Gorman said he noticed red marks on his wife's hands and chest.