But he suffered a heart attack at the scene and was pronounced dead at the Royal Bolton Hospital.

An inquest at Bolton Coroners’ Court heard yesterday how Mr Ashworth, who had five children from two previous relationships, had been on a trip to Worksop with girlfriend Wendy Hartigan to collect a bike to do up.

When they got back home, Mr Ashworth fell asleep and the mother-of-two left.

But when Mr Ashworth woke, he called Ms Hartigan, of Green Way, Hall i'th' Wood, on the phone.

She told the hearing: “We’d had a bit of an argument over the scooters. I thought he was going over the top and buying too much stuff because he had things all over the house.

“We kept putting the phone down on each other. The last thing he said to me was: ‘We’ll see if you miss me now then.’

“The next thing I remember, the police were banging on my door saying there had been a fire and he had been hurt. I had to go to the hospital to identify him. We were supposed to be getting married. I loved him.”

Fire investigators had found a lighter at the bottom of the stairs and the pattern of the fire suggested it had spread rapidly and had been started by a naked flame.

The court heard how Mr Ashworth often stored turpentine and other flammable materials he used in his work at the bottom of the stairs.

Bolton borough fire commander Vinny Simpson said the most likely cause of the fire was “deliberate ignition”.

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