Family thank those who tried to save Oswestry woman before death at aqueduct
The family of a woman who died at an aqueduct have thanked the people who tried to save her.
An inquest heard how off-duty police officer Luke Neal, who had been running along the towpath at Chirk Aqueduct, spent about 30 minutes trying to engage with Amanda May on June 16 last year.
A couple who were nearby in their narrowboat also stopped to help. When PC Michael Jones arrived, he too spent some time trying to chat to her.
The inquest heard how the 53-year-old, of Lower Frankton, Oswestry, had been increasingly physically and mentally unwell since the beginning of 2023, and she was convinced that she had Motor Neurone Disease, not believing doctors who told her it was a post-viral neurological disorder.
On June 13 she was taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital after taking an overdose, and while there was spoken to several times by a mental health nurse.
