A HOME renovator and gardener succumbed to the effects of asbestos after exposure during the 1970s. David George King died from the industrial disease at home in Honeyfields, Hungerford, with his wife at his side, an inquest in Reading Town Hall heard on Tuesday, January 16. He was aged 84. Mr King was born in Froxfield and worked as a home renovator and, later, as a gardener, being self-employed all his working life. His son Andrew revealed that, during the ‘70s, his father was employed to help to renovate a private school in Wiltshire. A car port had to be lined with asbestos sheeting, which…