Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 8:10:33 GMT 7
A midwife from London died on the first day of a dream holiday in Thailand after falling from the back of a moving motorised rickshaw, known as a tuk-tuk, an inquest heard today.
Victim Niamh Corrigan, 29, was on the way back to her hotel on Phuket island on December 20 last year with her partner Paul Fortuna, Southwark coroner’s court was told.
In a statement read out in court, Mr Fortuna told how the couple had travel- led to Thailand for a friend’s wedding.
The pair, from Bromley, attended a pre-wedding meal and drinks shortly after they arrived but were jetlagged and headed back to their hotel in the rickshaw at 2.30am.
He said: “We promised each other we’d take a tu
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/niamh-corrigan-midwife-killed-in-fall-from-tuktuk-on-first-day-of-dream-holiday-in-thailand-a3323736.html
Victim Niamh Corrigan, 29, was on the way back to her hotel on Phuket island on December 20 last year with her partner Paul Fortuna, Southwark coroner’s court was told.
In a statement read out in court, Mr Fortuna told how the couple had travel- led to Thailand for a friend’s wedding.
The pair, from Bromley, attended a pre-wedding meal and drinks shortly after they arrived but were jetlagged and headed back to their hotel in the rickshaw at 2.30am.
He said: “We promised each other we’d take a tu
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/niamh-corrigan-midwife-killed-in-fall-from-tuktuk-on-first-day-of-dream-holiday-in-thailand-a3323736.html
