Doctor found dead in bath after learning her boyfriend had one-night stand
She had been drinking wine and taking a high level of opioid medication the night she died.
metro.co.uk
An aesthetics doctor was found dead in the bath after discovering her boyfriend had a one-night stand, an inquest heard.
Dr Rielle Longhurst was under the influence of wine and opioid medication when she drowned at her Notting Hill flat on 22 August last year, Inner West London Coroners’ Court was told.
The 30-year-old had learnt her partner Charlie Procter cheated on her on a work trip to France and that night he visited her to talk about it, at which point they argued.
As he left to stay with his parents, she ‘made remarks about wanting to commit suicide’, but he didn’t think she was serious, the Mail Online reports.
He tried to phone Dr Longhurst the following morning but she failed to answer. He also noticed she hadn’t been active on social media, which was unusual.
Concerned, Mr Procter went to her flat and when she didn’t open the door he looked through the bathroom window and saw her submerged in the bath, the inquest heard.
He managed to climb through the window, pulled her out of the water and performed CPR but was unable to revive her.
Paramedics, who were called at 12.03pm, pronounced Dr Longhurst dead at the scene.
A toxicology report found her blood contained levels of alcohol that were above the legal driving limit, as well a high – but not fatal – level of opioid medication.
The inquest concluded she died from a misadventure by drowning, with assistant coroner Jean Harkin suggesting the alcohol and drugs made her ‘drowsy and sleepy’.
Obviously neither of them is/was British. The last British person left London in 2003.
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