Bridesmaid 'Hanged Self Hours After Attending Sister's Wedding'(Photos)

Rebecca Darnell,30, known to friends and family as Boo - was still wearing her bridesmaid's dress at the time.

Earlier in the evening she had been the "life and soul of the party" as head bridesmaid at her older sister Joanna's wedding, the court was told.

She had spent the night in good spirits, helping organise people at the wedding and dragging friends and family onto the dance floor.


"She was the life and soul," her father David told a coroner today. "She got everybody up and dancing, which is no mean feat. She was getting everyone involved."Her aunt, Jacqueline Nash, said Rebecca was a "happy, bubbly" person, who had recently organised her sister's Joanna's hen party and was excited to see her get married to fiance Matt Wilson.
                                          
"She was always fun to be around so you always tried to see Boo when you could," she said.However, just hours after the wedding reception Rebecca's partner of four years, Carlo Salamone, found her body hanging at their townhouse in Addlestone, Surrey.

The couple had argued about the taxi fare on their way back from the wedding, the inquest heard, and Mr Salamone had slept on the sofa when they had got home.

When he woke up and went upstairs to find his girlfriend, he saw that their bed was still made and had not been slept in.Walking up the second flight of stairs to the third floor, Mr Salamone found his path blocked by a hanging figure.

Mr Salamone raced to get a phone and dialled 999 and was directed through CPR lifesaving techniques, which he carried out.

Police constable Stephen Ashley, who attended the scene after 7am, said he found a body lying on the floor, still wearing a "formal evening dress."
                                      
A post-mortem examination showed Rebecca had died as a result of suspension, with a cause of death of hanging.

Toxicology tests showed she was double the drink driving limit, with 162mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood.

Mr Salamone told the inquest at Woking, Surrey that he had met Rebecca around 2010 through a close friend who worked with her at Alpha Hospital, also in Woking.

She was juggling work as a youth counsellor specialising in substance abuse with studying for a masters degree in family therapy.