Trauma of police raid led woman to take own life

THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD BECAME DEPRESSED AFTER COPS MISTAKENLY ARRESTED HER PARTNER

- By JEREMY ARMSTRONG AND DAVID HUNTLEY

A WOMAN from Newcastle took her own life after “experiencing extreme trauma” when armed police raided her home and arrested her partner in a case of mistaken identity.

Cherry Turner became obsessed with police coming back to the home and feared they had ‘bugged’ the property she shared with her fiance Craig Jackson, a court heard.

The 31-year-old took her own life on July 1, 2022, “as a consequence of the ordeal” after she spiralled into depression, a jury at South Tyneside Coroner's Court ruled.

The Mirror reports that the incident led to the loss of both their lives as Craig could not bear to be without his childhood sweetheart.

Craig, who received a kidney from dad Ian, 62, in a 2017 transplant, stopped taking his anti-rejection drugs and died in January this year. He told his family that he was unable to live without ‘the love of his life!

Squad cars, riot vans and armed officers descended on the home which Cherry and Craig shared 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.