Nicola

In August 2018, she's 19.

She presents with left thigh and lower back pain.

After, she says, being thrown from a horse.

There's no head injury or loss of conscience, despite the fact she's, you know, coming off a big, tall horse.

Again, she attends for...

a review she's had nasal injuries in another horse fall during which she does lose consciousness at 20 she presents with a shin pain after apparently you know hitting off a horse again during a jump and at 20 again a kick to the face

Yeah.

Yeah, and there was no, there was nothing that was followed up in relation to that.

You know, eventually she's admitted to Elkner Galvin Hospital on the 3rd of August 2020.

when he says that he's found her hanging in the house they're sharing.

He attends, he tells the story.

That story is believed by the first police investigator.

Despite those questions that are there, including the fact that he returns home from driving or some of the way to the hospital, changes his clothes and comes back and behaves in a way that's very controlling, even within the hospital.

Yeah.

And his behaviour sort of sparked some concerns, particularly with the nursing staff, who raised concerns both to the consultants and they go to the police.

On the 9th of August, she passed away.

And I note from this report that she passed away from pneumonia and

That seems to have come on after the injuries.

I'll find that again now exactly.

There was three things mentioned in it, but it wasn't from cardiac arrest.