A ROYAL Bolton Hospital patient died after receiving a lethal dose of the wrong medication.

The tragic death of 37-year-old divorcee Craig Richardson, of Kershaw Street, Tyldesley, happened on New Year's Day at the Minerva Road hospital.

An inquest was today told how a nurse gave him the wrong fluid in an intravenous drip -- he died two hours later.

A full report will appear on this site on Thursday.