A SECURITY guard from York died accidentally after using a homemade brazier in his car to keep warm, a coroner has ruled.

Rob Turnbull’s verdict came at the end of a resumed inquest yesterday into Ali Yalcin’s death.

The Harrogate hearing started last month, but was then adjourned. It was told then that Mr Yalcin, 36, of Lowther Court, off Lowther Street, York, had been working a 12-hour night shift alone on a bitterly cold night at the PapaKata Tents site in Forest Lane, Harrogate, on December 21 last year.

He was found inside his locked car in the morning and appeared initially to be sleeping, but a paramedic who was then called out broke the car window and found him dead with a metal ice-bucket containing charcoal in the passenger seat footwell.

Post-mortem examination findings suggested Mr Yalcin’s death was caused by high levels of carbon monoxide – 84 per cent – in his blood.

The inquest was told that neither PapaKata nor Selby-based Delta Security, for whom he worked, had breached health and safety regulations.