Last Wednesday a very particular trial was held in Blackburn (United Kingdom) that ended with the ruling of the Preston Investigative Court judge. In this trial, a sentence was handed down in favor of the accidental death of 72-year-old Jackie Michelle Cottrill, who died on January 24 because her pajamas got caught in the oven and ended up being strangled by it.
According to The Sun, the woman was preparing a sandwich for her nephew and, accidentally, the upper part of her pajamas got caught on the lower handle of the oven, with such bad luck, that she ended up being strangled without anyone being able to do anything about it. she.
Something unusual
At the trial hearing, the coroner who took over the case explained that Jackie died of “extraordinary bad luck” hard to believe. The coroner himself explained that it was a very strange accident: “It is very unusual for someone who was fit and in good condition to manage to accidentally get caught on the oven door.”
In his plea, he even explained that he had never encountered such a particular case as that of the woman who ended up strangled by her own oven: “In my 20 years doing this, I have never encountered this happening,” the coroner explained to the judge.
The judge finally ruled that the woman’s strangled death was totally accidental.
A very dear woman in the city
Everyone who knew her said they were still in shock after Jackie’s death. According to her two daughters, “I knew her by practically everyone’s name in Blackburn” and she was a sociable and happy person.
They claim that she was a woman who loved life, that there was no bar in the city where she had not had a pint, and she even worked with her two daughters in a well-known pub in the city, Last Orders: «Being as sociable as I was He never saw this as a job, but as an opportunity to spend time with his friends and make new friends.
For this reason, how the fatal accident happened is not yet explained and they deeply regret that she died in this way and was found by her own little nephew: “Blackburn has lost a real character and the city, pubs and game nights will never return. to be the same without her . Her wonderful sense of humor made her loved by everyone she came into contact with.
