Woman tragically died after being trampled to death by cow
16th October 2024
A photo of cows was the last thing a 29-year-old woman sent to her mother before she was trampled to death, an inquest has heard.
Rebekah Morris was walking her dog in fields off Riverside Way in Littlethorpe, Leicestershire, on the evening of 9th July 2022 when she sent the image with the caption “cowz”, BBC News reported.
A jury inquest into Ms Morris death began this Monday, 14th October, at Leicester Town Hall.
Her family said they started to worry when the woman stopped responding to their messages. They went looking for her and found the 29-year-old woman fatally injured.
Farmer Guy Hutton and other residents gave her CPR before emergency services arrived, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Forensic pathologist Michael Biggs told the inquest that Ms Morris, known to family and friends as Becki, had “hoofprints” to her chest and shoulder, and suffered an injury to her liver, which led to her death from internal bleeding.
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Incident involving one cow
Mr Hutton told the court that Ms Morris had suffered blunt force traumatic injuries and abrasions to her upper chest and left shoulder, and her injuries were ‘consistent with hoof marks from a trampling incident’.
He added: “The nature of the injuries and the severity of them are too excessive to have been caused by another person. They are consistent with a large, heavy creature such as a cow.
“There was extensive damage to the liver, which led to severe internal bleeding. That’s the main reason why Becki died,” according to media.
The expert also said that the number of injuries was “not so large” that he believed the whole herd had been involved and instead thought it was a “relatively brief incident involving one cow”.
Toxicology reports showed Ms Morris had “social level” alcohol in her system alongside her prescribed medication, but Dr Biggs said any impact on her would have been “mild”, BBC News reported.
The inquest continues.
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