AN employee of a former ice cream factory has died of an asbestos-related disease - just days after being awarded a significant amount in compensation. Mervyn Winter, 83, was diagnosed with mesothelioma last July and died on Thursday. Just two weeks earlier his claim for contracting the condition while working in the Carrington St, city, factory of Amscol, which is now defunct, was settled. The payout - details of which have not been revealed - may open the way for hundreds of other former Amscol workers to make claims for exposure to asbestos which insulated steam sterilisation and refrigeration pipes in the building. Mr Winter's son, Stephen, 55, of Encounter Bay, said his father was not interested in the money, only the truth. "Money was the furthest thing from his mind," he said.