A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said. Helen Davey, who lived in northeastern England and ran a beauty salon,

An Ottoman bed killed a mother of two after it collapsed on her neck and she suffocated. A coroner has issued a warning after Helen Davey, 39, died in a freak accident in June, when her opened bed fell shut on her unexpectedly as she was leaning over the exposed base.

A mother-of-two has died after her ottoman bed collapsed on her head and suffocated her. Helen Davey, 39, was killed whilst leaning over the storage area of the bed when the mattress fell unexpectedly, collapsing on her head and leaving her trapped between its base and mattress.

Helen Davey, 39, died from asphyxia at her home in Seaham, County Durham, when she was unable to free herself from the bed while she was leaning over the storage area.

A "defective" Ottoman-style bed caused the death of a woman after it fell and trapped her, according to a coroner's report. Helen Davey, 39, was leaning over the bed's storage area when its gas-lifted section came down.

According to the coroner's report, Ms Davey was leaning over the bed’s storage area when the gas-lifted section unexpectedly descended, trapping her neck against the bed's base. She subsequently died from asphyxia at her home.

A woman died after a "defective" Ottoman-style bed fell and trapped her, a coroner has said. Helen Davey, 39, was leaning over the storage area when the mattress platform "unexpectedly" came down in June,

Helen Davey, 39, was unable to free herself when a raised mattress platform suddenly slammed down, pinning her neck against the bed's base at her home in County Durham.

Helen Davey was leaning over the storage area of an Ottoman-styled bed when the mattress platform suddenly fell

A 39-year-old mother of two died after a motorized ottoman bed fell on her neck in northern England. Helen Davey’s lifeless body was discovered by her daughter, who told the Northern Echo