By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:21 EST, 4 October 2012 | UPDATED: 06:49 EST, 5 October 2012 An insensitive customer ignored a man who lay dying metres away from him so that he could order a glass of wine, an inquest heard today. Chartered surveyor Peter Westropp was killed by a falling lump of masonry as he sat drinking with friends outside a restaurant in Battersea, southwest London. The 27-year-old and his friends had just moved table when blocks of stone crashed down outside Le Bouchon Bordelais, with one hitting him on the head and knocking him unconscious.
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Peter Westropp, 27, was hit on the head in Battersea, southwest London
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Despite commotion, another customer tried to order wine
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Mr Westropp died shortly after the incident on August 10 last year - just four days before his 28th birthday
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The inquest into his death started at Westminster Coroner's Court today and is expected to last five days
Le Bouchon Bordelais
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