Cherry took own life after mistaken gun cop house raid

Fears over police coming back sparked depression

- BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG

A WOMAN took her own life after armed police raided her home and arrested her partner in a case of mistaken identity.

Cherry Turner, 31, spiralled into depression after the blunder, an inquest heard. She became obsessed with police coming back and feared they had bugged the property she shared with fiance Craig Jackson.

She took her own life on July 1, 2022, "as a consequence of the ordeal after experiencing extreme trauma", a jury at South Tyneside coroners court ruled.

Squad cars, riot vans and armed officers raided the couple's home in Denton, Newcastle, on December 12, 2021. Craig had been mistaken for another man of the same name who was allegedly involved in a gun offence on Tyneside. Cherry's death, just eight months after Northumbria Police's raid, came about as a result of their "error", the inquest heard.