Caroline Flack was being “harassed by an ex-partner” as she went through the court ordeal that triggered her suicide.
The mystery stalker’s behaviour contributed to the Love Island star’s stress and anxiety in the run-up to her death, according to a psychiatrist who examined her.
The Crown Prosecution Service was told about it in a medical report two months before she died as lawyers fought to get her assault case thrown out.
A psychiatrist warned that the harassment risked heightening the deterioration in her mental health.
But prosecutors ruled the allegation had no bearing on their case against her for assaulting lover Lewis Burton.
Caroline Flack leaving Highbury Corner Magistrates’ in 2019 (Image: PA)
A prosecuting lawyer said it was a separate crime and recommended the star reported it to police.
Caroline, 40, was found dead at her flat in Stoke Newington, north-east London, on February 15 by a note reading: “Please let this court case be dropped.’’
Coroner Mary Hassell, who recorded a verdict of suicide, did not call the individual responsible for the harassment as a witness at the inquest.
She also ordered them not to be named during the two-day hearing at Poplar Coroner’s Court in east London.
Caroline Flack with her ex-boyfriend Lewis Burton (Image: mrlewisburton/Instagram)
But she stated that the culprit was not 28-year-old Burton.
Today a Metropolitan Police spokesman said the force could not find a record of a harassment allegation made by the star.
A spokesman for lawyers acting for Caroline’s family did not respond to a request for comment.
After the hearing, with concluded on Thursday, Caroline Flack’s mum said police and prosecutors ‘had it in for’ the Love Island host and pursued the court case that triggered her suicide because of her ‘celebrity status’.
TV presenter Caroline Flack with her mum Christine (Image: Instagram)
Mum Christine said her famous daughter killed herself as a result of Det Insp Lauren Bateman’s personal decision to appeal against a Crown Prosecution Service lawyer’s ruling to let her off with a caution for assaulting her lover Lewis Burton.
Bateman was not involved in the investigation into Flack’s bust-up with Burton, 28, in which the Strictly champ hit him over the head with her mobile phone causing a cut which bled ‘profusely’.
She said if Caroline had been cautioned – as the CPS had wanted – she would still be alive.
The angry mum told Det Insp Bateman: “If it had been an ordinary person you wouldn’t have prosecuted.
“I just think you should be disgusted with yourself.
“There is nothing we can do to bring Caroline back. That girl killed herself because you put an appeal through.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
