Tragic hanging of young mother
There was no answer and the workers, Jason Creamer and ‘Tad’ remained there for five to 10 minutes knocking and ringing the doorbell and becoming increasingly concerned as they could hear the couple’s toddler daughter crying.
Tad, who was Polish like Miss Giza and ‘knew mutual people’, went round the back and entered via the faulty patio doors then let his colleague in through the front so he had a chaperone inside.
Shouting and calling inside the property, they received no response from Miss Giza but the child called out ‘Daddy’s home’. The inquest heard this might have been because Tad had called out in Polish.
They found the bathroom shut from its two doors. The toddler was crying inside. Keen to rouse Miss Giza but concerned she might be in a state of undress they rang a friend, Marcin, who arrived quickly and unlocked the bathroom using a chisel to turn the lock then entered, becoming ‘extremely upset’ as he found Miss Giza clearly deceased with her surviving daughter nearby, whom he picked up and rushed out with.
Mr Creamer prised open the door from the master bedroom and saw the deceased hanging.
The three men waited for police to arrive and provided statements. A team of detectives investigated. Neighbours told them there had been no commotion at the property during the night and they would have heard anyone breaking in.
They said Miss Giza and Mr Goralczyk were a friendly couple. Toxicology tests of Miss Giza’s blood, urine and stomach contents found a quantity of benzodiazepine consistent with therapeutic anti- anxiety use, anti-inflammatory drug ketoprofen, and alcohol levels expected to usually cause ‘ mild intoxication’ with 137 millilitres per decilitre (ml/dl) in the blood and 197 in the urine.
For comparison the alcohol blood level drink drive limit is 80 ml/dl.
She had no history of mental health problems.
With foul play ruled out, and considering the features of the deceased’s fingers clinging inside the ligature and tip toes touching the floor, Cheshire assistant coroner Dr Janet Napier concluded Miss Giza did not intend to kill herself but was making a ‘cry for help’ in hoping her boyfriend would find her alive but in that position, and lost consciousness while doing so.
She recorded a conclusion that Miss Giza died by hanging and the death was accidental.
In a statement read to the court by Dr Napier, Mr Goralczyk said he was ‘in shock’ over the death.
The couple had been building a life together in England as a young family running a beauty salon.
A statement from Miss Giza’s father Bogdan Giza said she had been arranging to visit him in France in the lead-up to her death.
Dr Napier said the WhatsApp messages to her boyfriend on the night of her death showed Miss Giza was ‘becoming more emotional’.
In the summary of her findings, she said: “I find no evidence she really wanted to kill herself.
“This may have been a cry for help expecting him to come home and find her, and the pressure on her neck might have had this effect and she couldn’t relieve the pressure, and her death was caused.”