An experienced skydiver deliberately fell to her death the day after her relationship ended, an inquest heard.

Jade Damarell, 32, did not deploy her main or reserve parachutes and had switched off the automatic activation device (AAD) before crashing.

She fell from 15,500ft onto farmland near an airfield at Shotton Colliery, County Durham, on 27 April.

Ms Damarell was a marketing manager who was born in Hong Kong and lived in Caerphilly, Wales.

She loved skydiving and had completed more than 500 jumps. The day before she died, she had completed six jumps safely and without issues.

Ms Damarell left instructions on the lock screen of her phone on how to access the handset and left notes and details of her finances in its Notes folder, the inquest at Crook Civic Centre, County Durham, wa

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