WA: Lang's renal doctor did not expect the tycoon to die

AAP General News (Australia)
08-15-2001
WA: Lang's renal doctor did not expect the tycoon to die

A medical specialist has told the inquest into the death of LANG HANCOCK that his patient
had the will of a lion and wasn't expected to die when he did.

Renal specialist Dr BRIAN HUTCHESON says Mr HANCOCK had been a sick man for 10 years,
yet there had been no reason to expect him to die on March 27, 1992.

Mr HANCOCK had been sent home three days before he died to undergo home dialysis after
a spell in hospital.

Coroner ALASTAIR HOPE is hearing evidence from medical experts this week.

They have varyingly told him that Mr HANCOCK's then wife ROSE PORTEOUS could have stressed
her late husband to death, and that the maid-turned-socialite was unlikely to have done
so.

Lawyers for the tycoon's daughter, GINA RINEHART, are trying to show at the inquest
that her former stepmother wilfully murdered Mr HANCOCK.

The inquest continues.

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KEYWORD: HANCOCK (PERTH)

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