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The Grandmother Went on a One-Week Vacation, Then She Died Trying to Scratch Her Way Out of an Airing Cupboard
The tragic story of Mary Isherwood
Mary was so excited to go on her one-week vacation.
But, she found herself trapped in an airing cupboard the same day she arrived.
It was late at night.
Mary yelled, banged, and tried to scratch her way out of the cupboard. All to no avail.
“Being unable to turn the lock and realizing she was trapped and there was no light, at some stage she, first of all, pulled the shelves off…..
Then she pulled the copper piping and a piece was broken off.
This was used to try initially to open the door because there were marks on the door but also used to try and break a hole through the wall of the airing cupboard.” — Coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones.
Mary Was a Sixty-Year-Old Grandmother
In 2017, Mary Elizabeth Isherwood was sixty years old.
She lived in Wolverhampton, UK.
Mary was a police officer. She became a part-time care worker after she resigned.
