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He held her hostage, presumably at gun point, in her own home. She was old and female and he was young, male strong and clearly in no mood to be ****ed with.

She had a heart attack as a result of the (predictable) shock of this - she wouldn't have died had he not been there. He then could have phoned an ambulance, but, presumably calculated that that would put him at risk of being caught - "tough luck, grandma..."

I think we would call it manslaughter, but for the victims, I am not sure that the difference matters.

Anyone who thinks he has been hard done-by might need to stop siding with the criminal and think of the victim.

He had a choice. She did not.
Although you've made a number of assumptions, (he could have been telling her that he had no intention of harming her, for example, rather than "tough luck, grandma") you're probably right.

It could have been manslaughter as it it took place in the commission of an unlawful act.

He broke into her house and held her against her will. That's a crime and it resulted in her death.

I wonder if he would have been prosecuted for GBH, if she hadn't died from the heart attack.