A CLACTON man died after choking on a beefburger in McDonald's in Colchester on Christmas Eve, an inquest was told.
Joseph Saunders, 51, was rushed to Colchester General Hospital after choking at the fastfood outlet and then suffering a heart attack.
A post mortem examination gave the provisional cause of death as food aspiration and a cardiac arrest.
The inquest was opened in Chelmsford and will be concluded at a later date.
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