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Camden New Journal - by ROISIN GADELRAB
Published: 31 May 2007

Woman stepped in front of train

AN INTERIOR designer has told an inquest how her partner stepped in front of a Tube train without warning.
St Pancras Coroner’s Court heard how accounts assistant Heather Penney, 40, insisted that her partner Susan Edwards accompany her to Finchley Road Tube station in August last year as she travelled to hospital about her polycythaemia (raised red blood cell count), before stepping in front of a Jubilee line train without a word.
Ms Edwards, of Greencroft Gardens, West Hampstead, said: She was quite intent on going to the Underground.
“I said ‘it’s a shame the shop’s not open’. I said ‘You’re ignoring me.’ She turned and looked at me intently. (As the train approached) she walked in front of two people. I still had my arm around her and she just stepped out in front of the train. There were screams.”
Train driver Dennis Baptiste said: “All of a sudden Ms Penney stepped towards the edge of the platform. She put one foot out, sort of hesitated, and then threw herself in front of the train.”
Pathologist Dr Freddie Patel gave the cause of death as multiple injuries.
Verdict: suicide.

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