Tragic Claire Lucas died after taking cocaine, inquest hears
Claire Lucas THE actions of Claire Lucas’ “jealous and violent” partner Daniel Heath hindered a pathologist in assessing how she died, the inquest into her death heard today. Detective Chief Inspector Fiona Wynne said CCTV showed that Heath was repeatedly in and out of her flat in Tang Hall, York, between the time when Claire, 25, a nursery worker, last contacted her friends and her body was found three days later. “He must have known that Claire Lucas had deceased,” she told the Northallerton inquest. She quoted Dr Jennifer Bolton’s report in which the pathologist said it...