A woman died six years after crawling out of a shallow grave when she was buried alive by her fiance, an inquest heard.
Stacey Gwilliam was strangled by her partner Keith Hughes in a row as they walked on a coastal path at Langland Bay, Swansea, in July 2015.
The inquest in Swansea heard Ms Gwilliam, 40, suffered from PTSD, anxiety, depression and panic attacks following the attack.Ms Gwilliam, from Townhill, Swansea, died at home in November last year after suffering from a chest infection, the inquest heard.But she was found dead in bed the following day after self-medicating in an attempt to treat her infection.
Hughes was jailed for life with a minimum of eight years by Judge Paul Thomas at Swansea Crown Court.PC Tom Evans, of South Wales Police, said her family noticed she had ‘marks and bruises’ on her body during the relationship while fearing for her safety. She said: ‘I will never ever forget what he did to me that day and what he did to me throughout our relationship and now I have to live with that for the rest of my life.The former Virgin Atlantic worker spent three months in hospital following the attack and had to relearn how to walk and talk again.The inquest heard Ms Gwilliam had started to order medication online – and toxicology reports found a number of sedative drugs in her system which were mostly prescribed.
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