Overview

• Senior coroner Tom Osborne concluded at Milton Keynes Coroner’s Court on July 23 that Baldock’s death was an accidental drowning.
• A forensic pathologist’s post-mortem found no drugs or alcohol in his system and noted a markedly enlarged heart prone to arrhythmias.
• Greek police’s initial probe in October 2024 similarly ruled out criminal involvement after finding Baldock unresponsive in his Glyfada pool.
• The 31-year-old had played a club fixture three days before the incident and was due to return to the UK the next day for his son’s first birthday.
• Baldock, a Greece international and former MK Dons and Sheffield United defender, had recently signed for Panathinaikos and was living in Athens.