Naked woman dies trying to escape closet from hell
A retired British police officer died of hypothermia after becoming trapped naked inside a closet, where she tried to claw her way out for several days while on a vacation
according to reports.
Elizabeth Mary Isherwood, 60, had to use the bathroom during the night while staying by herself at the Plas Talgarth vacation plex near Machynlleth in Wales..
But a possible wrong turn led the part-time care worker from Wolverhampton to enter the pitch-black laundry closet, where she became trapped when part of the doorknob fell off, according to the Telegraph.
At first, the desperate woman yelled for help, but when no one responded, she took more drastic action.
“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,” coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones told an inquest, the UK’s Metro reported.
“Whether she used them to try and get out, I can’t say. What she did do was 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,” he said.
Sherwood managed to make a hole in the wall and was inches from freedom.
“Unfortunately, on the other side of the wall was a picture,” Pritchard-Jones said.
Meanwhile, the burst plumbing sprayed cold water into the confined space, where she became drenched and eventually succumbed to hypothermia, he said.
Isherwood had co-owned the timeshare at Plas Talgarth with her ex-husband, Clive Isherwood, but they sold it after the couple separated recently when she came out as gay, according to the Times.
“The staff at the complex had given Mary some vouchers to use for a final stay. She would’ve usually gone with friends but nobody could make it, so she went alone,” Clive said.
He said fellow guests heard noises from his ex-wife’s room but dismissed them as coming from maintenance work.
“They’d said that the banging stopped at around 5 p.m. on Sunday night and they thought nothing more of it,” he said. “Her body wasn’t found until the day she was due to check out, so this happened right at the start of her trip.”
Her son, Craig, 32, said the family was “devastated.”
“If she’d carried on banging, she probably could’ve escaped. She must have been exhausted, which is why she stopped banging,” he said, according to the Times.
“Mum was so sporty, fit, healthy and loved playing golf. If anyone could have got out of that cupboard, it would have been Mum,” he added.
The family is considering legal action against the resort.
A spokesman said: “Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of Ms. Isherwood. We are grateful for the skillful way the police have handled the investigation.”
Isherwood left the West Midlands police force in 1991 after coming out as gay, the Telegraph reported.
After moving to London, where she joined the Post Office Investigation Service, she met her partner, Rosie, according to the paper.
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