A Coronial inquest into the death of a diner at a restaurant on Sydney's North Shore has found the food he was served killed him.
81-year-old William Hodgins died just hours after dining with his wife at the up market Tables restaurant in Pymble last year.
An inquest has today found it was a pathogen in the asparagus sauce, served with his fish that killed him.
The Coroner listed food poisoning as his cause of death.
The inquest had heard the sauce was up to 48 hours old when it was served to him, and had been repeatedly re-heated and cooled.
Outside court Mr Hodgins’s family has welcomed the findings they say gives them closure.
His son Bruce said they were relieved with the verdict.
“We were concerned that it could have been the sauce, and we were very careful to make any assumptions,” he said.
“We asked for the coroner’s inquest to be held, and part of asking for it was obviously to ensure that the full story did in fact emerge and from that perspective we are very comfortable it has all emerged.”
They will now consider whether to launch further legal action against the restaurant.