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Wow how sad RIP

do we know how it happened?

Newspapers never follow up things like this. It is tragic, as mentioned.

Actually i have been on this site before but never posted ! You can't really think that i should take it in a funny or other way specially with the ! Sorry if i havent got much of a sense of humour at the mo.. She was a brilliant and lovely person and touched many hearts..

There is an inquest thats why nothing has been followed up, so should be in the local paper soon once everything is back.

oh ment to say, i am not normally a snotty moo but anything to do with her i get rubbed up the wrong way.

dont worry about it, hope the family is ok.

this lady suffered from very bad depression. and it was suicide. she killed her self with a lighter and oil and she was a dear friend of mine. Karen had two children, one in Mosslands and the other who is three years. It has been a huge break-down for Karen's family and all of her friends. Everybody tryed to help her be happy but she had depression too badly and there was no chance of recovery.
I loved Karen and this is still haunting me that she is gone and I won't see her ever again. Her husband, Martin, is currently looking after the kids and I regulary go to see him to check on all of them.

Tracy.

Thank you for sharing that information Tracy, I hope life returns to as normal as it can.

Yoga teacher died following garage fire at her Wirral home, inquest is told



A YOGA teacher, who suffered from depression, died after starting a fire in the garage of her Wirral home, an inquest heard.

The body of Karen Gallagher, 44, was found on the garage floor by firefighters who attended the property in Gloucester Road, Wallasey, on March 15. A postmortem found that the mother-of-two had died from severe burns.

Coroner’s officer Donald Johnston told the inquest at Wallasey Town Hall last week that on the morning of her death, Miss Gallagher had been seen riding a bicycle with a petrol can on the handle bars.

The fire service was called to her home just after midday following reports that smoke was seen coming from the garage and the side door was locked.

Firefighters forced the garage door open and found the mother-of-two lying on the floor. A green-coloured petrol can was found nearby.

The postmortem conducted by Dr Krishna Gumparthy at Arrowe Park Hospital revealed that Miss Gallagher had sustained 81 per cent burns. A toxicology examination showed no traces of alcohol in her blood.

The inquest heard that Miss Gallager had suffered from depression and had made several attempts to self-harm.

Three weeks before the fire, she had jumped into Birkenhead docks but later told her partner, Martin Harvey, that the shock of the cold water had made her think of her famiily.

Recording a narrative verdict, Wirral coroner, Christopher Johnson, said: "The deceased died as the result of self-inflicted burns."

A narrative verdict is one in which the coroner simply records the circumstances surrounding the death.


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