Inquest: Daughter struggled with how her ‘much-loved’ mum Brenda Wrist died

A daughter told a coroner how she was “at peace” with the way her father had died but not that of her mother.

Elaine Gill said her dad had “died the way he would have liked, to pass away peacefully in bed, I feel at peace with that”.

But she said she “struggled” with the death of her 89-year-old mother Brenda Wrist’s after finding her on the floor of her bedroom having suffered a fall.

Giving evidence at Winchester Coroners’ Court, Mrs Gill said she had been alerted by neighbours that her mother, who lived in William Road, Lymington, had been “shouting for help” on 27th September last year.

When she went to her mother’s home she found her lying on the floor and the room in disarray.

She said: “Everything was moved about and she had thrown some stuff away.”

Mrs Wrist was rushed to Southampton hospital where her daughter said that at first she was “lucid and talking”.

But after she went to get a drink she came back to find her mother in the resuscitation room.

Doctors told Mrs Gill her mother had suffered a fractured femur and a bleed on the brain.

She died two days later.

Mrs Gill said her mother had suffered a fall a few weeks before her death and she had to come back from holiday to see her in hospital.

She said: “She refused to speak to me, she was absolutely disgusted to be in hospital.”

Mrs Gill said her mother was very independent but had then accepted three visits a day from the local frailty team.

She said she could not see how the second fall had led to such a serious head injury but area coroner Jason Pegg said the fact Mrs West was on blood-thinning tablets probably contributed to it.

He ruled that Mrs Wrist had died as a result of injuries suffered in the fall, adding that from Mrs Gill’s evidence she was a “very much loved mum”