Women dead after moving horses

Women dead after moving horses
When in November, a mother of two, was moving two horses between fields, she suffered fatal injuries. Last week an inquest was heard in Kent. The court in Maidstone heard that the 62-year-old suffered multiple injuries to her chest and heart.

Her friend Jane Tipples told the court that she was helping to move the horses when she heard Mrs Turnbull “squeal” and turned to see her clutching her stomach. An ambulance crew spent 40 minutes trying to revive her but she died at the scene.

Pathologist Dr David Rouse told the inquest how the nature of Mrs Turnbull’s injuries ruled out the possibility of a naturally occurring death and said they were consistent with being crushed.

Her husband John told the court it had been “extremely difficult” to come to terms with her death.