ABSTRACT
In 1988 Mrs Eleanor Bellamy, a widow of 82, bought a Candy washer/drier, model 38WD, for her bungalow in Aston, near Sheffield. It gave ‘first class’ service until the evening of 17 February 1992 when it killed her. On that day her daughter, Mrs Marples, put some washing in the machine and then went out, leaving her mother to go to bed early at 17.30. When the daughter returned at 20.00 she found that there had been a fierce fire in the kitchen and that her mother was dead in bed, from the inhalation of smoke and carbon monoxide poisoning.
