Death of Estonian woman was not suspicious
AN INQUEST in Gorey last week into the death of an Estonian woman at a house in Clonard, Wexford, last year, found that her death was not suspicious.
Triin Tampu, (49), of 90 Cl- uain Dara, Clonard, was found deceased in the bedroom of her home on August 16, 2016.
A deposition from Artur Choroszkiewicz was read to the court. He was in a relationship with her and had lived in the house with her and a housemate Daniel Prybylski for two years.
They had been drinking all day, and then she went for a lie down. He and Daniel fell asleep in the sitting room.
When he went up to the bedroom later, he found her on the floor, and saw some blood on the mirror.
He put her into bed, and noticed blood on her head. He tried to wake her up and couldn’t, and then he fell asleep. When he woke up, she was dead.
Daniel rang an ambulance and they were given instructions on how to do CPR. They moved her to the floor to do so.
Garda David Fitzgerald arrived at the scene at 7.55 p.m. having been alerted by the ambulance personnel who were concerned at the state in which she was found.
He called in the crime unit. He was told by the men she appeared to have fallen and hit her head on a bedside locker. The scene was preserved overnight.
Deputy State Pathologist Dr Michael Curtis visited the scene on the morning of August 17, accompanied by members of the technical bureau.
Some hair and some blood was found on the bedside cabinet, and there was a laceration to the back of her head.
The post mortem showed she sustained a head injury which caused very large bleeding pressure on the brain. This produced pressure effects on the brain which caused her death. Tests revealed she had 367 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood.
He determined the principal cause of death was a head injury with a contribution from acute alcohol intoxication.
‘Because of the alcohol level, she would have been much more vulnerable to bleeding,’ commented coroner Dr Sean Nixon. He recommended the jury return a verdict of misadventure.
‘It’s a high risk to have that amount of alcohol in your system,’ he said. ‘There was also a high risk of fall.’
Sympathies were expressed to the family and friends of the deceased.