Jodi Taylor Death: Coroner Returns Verdict On Ibiza Fall Woman

Coroner Returns Verdict On Ibiza Fall Woman's Death

A British woman plunged to her death from her hotel balcony after drinking excessively and taking ecstasy during a girls' holiday to Ibiza, an inquest has heard.

Jodi Taylor had been drinking all day with her three friends Janina Phillips, Tyler Simpson and Stacey Tyrell before they went out clubbing in San Antonio on the Balearic island.

An inquest today heard the 25-year-old from Leicester was twice over the legal driving limit having drunk vodka, jagerbombs and a number of shots, and was found to have MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, in her blood, following her death last July.

Pathologist Dr Amanda Harrison, from Leicester Royal Infirmary, said Miss Taylor had suffered a fractured skull and brain damage in the fall from the third floor of the Hotel Galera in the early hours of the third day of their week-long holiday.

The injuries were so severe nothing could have been done to save her even if she had survived to go to hospital, Dr Harrison told the court.

"She would have died almost immediately. She would not have been aware of what was happening," she added.

Dr Harrison was unable to say what effects the ecstasy would have had on Miss Taylor because people have different tolerance levels to the drug.

The hearing was told the factory worker had returned to the hotel alone while her three friends, who were in court today to give evidence, continued to party until 6am.

Wanting to join them, Miss Taylor got out of bed and tried to climb over to their balcony from hers.

She slipped and fell, the inquest heard.

Describing the moment he saw her clinging to the concrete wall between the two balconies, Michael Ellis said: "I saw Jodi climbing over, I put my drink down cos as soon as I saw it I knew, it didn't look right.

"But before I got to her she was gone."

Miss Taylor's two older sisters Nina and Margerita Constani, wept and consoled their mother Miss Valerie Davies, who was also crying, as the coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.

Her brother Robert was also in court with a number of friends and relatives.

Mrs Lydia Brown, assistant deputy coroner for Leicester and South Leicestershire, said: "Jodi had on two occasions mentioned the balcony and how it would be possible to climb between the two rooms using that route.

Extending her sympathies to the family at the hearing at Leicester Town Hall, Mrs Brown said: "It will be of some comfort to the family to know that Jodi would not have been aware of any pain.

"It's an absolute tragedy of a case for her mother, sisters and her brother.

"I pass on my sincere condolences to her friends but most of all to her family."

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