We won’t know what was on Natalie’s mind, says coroner
THE daughter of Commons deputy speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle had been in a “toxic” relationship before her death in her bedroom, an inquest has heard.
Natalie Lewis-hoyle, 28, died in Heybridge, Essex, on December 15 last year. The parish councillor had been reflecting on a troubled relationship before her death, but was “finally coming to terms with the fact that it wasn’t going to go anywhere”, her mother Miriam Lewis told the Chelmsford hearing. Essex police concluded there were no suspicious circumstances and had been no third party involvement in Miss Lewis-hoyle’s death, and this was accepted by the court.
But both her parents told the inquest they were troubled by phone calls they believed had affected their daughter’s state of mind. No details of the calls were disclosed. They said she had expressed no intention to take her life.
Miss Lewis-hoyle had been collected by her mother from Hatfield Peverel station on December 14 and had a blood-alcohol level of 171mg per 100ml. Coroner Caroline Beasley-murray said she wanted to put that in context by adding that “she wasn’t driving and it was a weeknight before Christmas” when many people went for post-work drinks. Mrs Lewis found her daughter hanged at home the next morning.
Mrs Beasley-murray recorded an open conclusion, adding: “We will never quite know what was going through her mind. So that’s what I am going to record.”