A 74 YEAR OLD PENSIONER ‘DEPRESSED ABOUT GETTING O

A 74 YEAR OLD PENSIONER ‘DEPRESSED ABOUT GETTING OLD’ DIED AFTER

STEPPING OFF A PLATFORM AT WELLING STATION INTO THE PATH OF AN

ONCOMING TRAIN.

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IVY SCUTTS, A WIDOW FOR 16 YEARS, SUFFERED MULTIPLE INJURIES

WHEN SHE WAS HIT BY THE DARTFORD TO BLACKFRIARS TRAIN AT 7.

28 PM ON

SEPTEMBER 30 THIS YEAR.

HER SISTER, ELIZABETH COLLINS, OF CLEVELAND ROAD, WELLING,
TOLD AN INQUEST JURY AT SOUTHWARK CORONERS COURT: ‘I THINK SHE WAS

SUICIDAL.

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SHE ADDED: ‘OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS SHE WAS VERY DEPRESSED
ABOUT GETTING OLD AND HAVING NO-ONE TO LOOK AFTER HER.

THE HOUSE SHE
LIVED IN WAS FALLING DOWN AROUND HER AND THINGS WERE GOING WRONG AND
WORRYING HER.

‘
TRAIN DRIVER MR FREDERICK BULLOCK, OF DOWDING WALK, GRAVESEND,
KENT, DESCRIBED HOW HE WAS APPROACHING WELLING STATION, DRIVING AN
EMPTY TRAIN AT 60MPH.

‘AS I APPROACHED THE STATION AROUND A LEFT HAND BEND – AT THE

END OF THE PLATFORM ITSELF – I SAW THE FIGURE OF A WOMAN STEPPING

INTO THE PATH OF THE TRAIN.

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THE PATHOLOGIST, DR MICHAEL HEATH, SAID MRS SCUTTS, OF
BELGROVE ROAD, WELLING, DIED OF MULTIPLE INJURIES.

THE JURY RETURNED AN OPEN VERDICT.

ENDS