AN INQUEST into the death of a pensioner who fell to his death from a window at Basingstoke hospital has been postponed.

The body of Robert Thompstone, 76, from Selborne, who was a patient, was found in the hospital grounds on Monday, December 3 last year.

The two-day inquest was meant to start on Tuesday, July 23 at Alton Magistrates’ Court. No new date had been set when The Gazette went to press.