Dad-of-four dies after falling into ditch filled with freezing-cold water – as haunting footage reveals final moments | The Sun

A DAD-of-four whose disappearance sparked a huge police search died after falling into a ditch filled with freezing water.

Iain MacNicol, 77, vanished from near his home in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, on January 23 last year.

His body was discovered two days later in fields between Market Weighton and Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.

Divers said the water he lay in was up to 3ft deep and about 3C.

An inquest into the pensioner's death heard he went missing during one of his regular country walks.

A major search and rescue mission was launched when he failed to return home.

Haunting CCTV footage shows his final moments.

Iain's wife told how he could have become confused and disorientated after a mental decline due to dementia.

She had tried to persuade him to wear a GPS tracker with her phone number on but he had refused, it was said.

Dr Laszlo Karsai declared Iain's cause of death to be immersion in cold water, with heart disease a contributing factor.

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