A father-of-three suffering from alcohol withdrawal symptoms drowned when he fell into his own bath, an inquest was told.

Steven Farr, 42, was found under the water by his children when the tragedy took place at the family home last October.

He was already dead when the emergency services arrived at the scene in Hathaway Avenue, Chellow Grange, Bradford.

In a statement read to the hearing at the city's coroner's court, Gillian Farr said her husband was told by doctors that he would die if he did not stop drinking.

Two days before his death, he did stop but he began to experience "sweats and shakes''.

After finding her husband in the bath, she assumed that he had hit his head on a tap as he fell.

Dr Richard Calvert, a consultant histopathologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary, said that chronic alcoholics were "predisposed'' to abnormal heart beats and epileptic fits.

A post-mortem examination showed that he died from drowning due to withdrawal from alcohol in chronic alcoholism.

Coroner Roger Whittaker said he believed that Mr Farr had collapsed and fallen into the bath, injuring himself.

But he added he did not know whether Mr Farr lost his consciousness when he hit his head or whether it was caused by the alcohol problems he had suffered.

A verdict of accidental death was recorded.