An experienced skydiver deliberately fell to her death in April after ending her relationship with her partner the night before, an inquest has heard.
Jade Damarell, 32, died of blunt trauma injuries after falling from 15,500ft (4,600 metres) into a field in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, on 27 April.
At an inquest at Crook civic centre in County Durham on Thursday, the coroner Leslie Hamilton gave a conclusion of suicide, finding that Damarell had intended to take her own life.
The inquest heard that Damarell, an experienced skydiver from Caerphilly in Wales had completed more than 500 jumps, including six on the day before her death.
On her final jump, however, the inquest was told that Damarell had deliberately not deployed her main parachute, which is usually opened at about 5,000ft.
She had also turned off a device designed to automatically deploy a parachute at a certain speed or altitude should a skydiver be unable to do so.
Hamilton concluded that Damarell, a “very experienced” skydiver, had intended to end her own life. »