A 102-year-old great-grandfather with dementia died days after he was allegedly pushed off the stage in his local pub after making a noise complaint. Phillip Ormerod, from Cwmbran, died in hospital a week and a half after an incident at the Crow's Nest pub in the town on August 1.
Son calls for justice
His son, Robert Ormerod, told the Press Association he wanted justice for his father, who he described as a popular character who young people would buy beer for when he regularly visited the bar.
The 102-year-old is understood to have been visiting the Crow's Nest for a Saturday night drink when he went onto a stage in the venue to complain about the volume of the music. Robert said: "He just asked them to turn the music down." He said his father turned around to come back down off the stage when he was pushed, suffering a broken hip.
Family's grief
"(That's) the most upsetting part. He wasn't going to live forever but it's not a nice way, obviously in pain," he said. "They must have known he was an old man. It makes you wonder what the world is coming to. It has obviously made it difficult. It would've been nice if he'd gone quietly in his sleep. He was in hospital, suffering, for a week-and-a-half. It's not nice."
Mr Ormerod, 102, was a great-grandfather who worked as a design draughtsman before his retirement. His wife died 40 years ago and he was often visited by his two sons in Llanyrafon.
Arrest and investigation
Robert said: "I used to visit him regularly, and then towards the end me and my brother used to keep the house clean as best we could, and buy his food because his eyesight had deteriorated. (He was diagnosed with dementia) a couple of years ago, he probably had it before that."
He said his father would visit the pub two or three times a week, where he would drink beers, and described how he became a familiar face to some locals. "I suppose he became a pub character," he said.
Emergency services were called to the pub in Cwmbran at about 10.25pm on August 1 following a report of an assault. A 56-year-old man from Llanelli was arrested on suspicion of section 20 assault and remains under investigation.
