Caroline Flack’ s inquest has heard that police were flagged down in the street before they found her body.
The former Love Island presenter’s cause of death was revealed as suicide by hanging at the inquest into her death on Wednesday.
Speaking at Poplar Coroner’s Court, the coroner confirmed that she had died by hanging when she took her own life in her flat on February 15.
The coroner confirmed that police were driving through Northwold Road, Stoke Newington, on Saturday February 15 when they were flagged down.
Police entered her home and found Caroline on her back on the floor on Saturday, coroner’s officer Sandra Polson said today.
Caroline Flack’s inquest has heard that police were flagged down in the street before they found her body (Image: SWNS)
Paramedics carried out CPR but she died at 2.36pm, the court heard.
Her body was identified by her twin sister, Jody Flack.
The court heard an autopsy found a provisional cause of death as suspension by ligature.
Opening and adjourning the inquest, Ms Polson said the inquest will resume on August 5.
The court heard an autopsy found a provisional cause of death as suspension by ligature (Image: SWNS)
Police had been called to her Islington flat in the early hours of December 12 after reports a man had been assaulted.
She was charged with alleged assault by beating the following day.
Caroline pleaded not guilty to the charge while Lewis stood by her, though the couple were banned from seeing each other before the trial.
Caroline had been just a few weeks away from standing trial for assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton, with the court date set for March 4.
Caroline with her devastated mother, Christine (Image: TIM STEWART NEWS LIMITED)
On Wednesday morning Caroline’s family released an unpublished Instagram post made by her just weeks before she died.
Her devastated mother, Chris said her daughter’s advisors had told her not to release it while she was alive but Chris wanted Caroline’s voice to be heard.
In the post Caroline said she wasn’t a “domestic abuser” as she spoke about how her world had been turned upside down by her arrest.
In the post Caroline said she wasn’t a “domestic abuser” as she spoke about how her world had been turned upside down by her arrest (Image: TIM STEWART NEWS LIMITED)
She wrote: “I have always taken responsibility for what happened that night. Even on the night. But the truth is …. It was an accident.
“I’ve been having some sort of emotional breakdown for a very long time.
“But I am NOT a domestic abuser. We had an argument and an accident happened. An accident.”
The much-loved presenters sudden death has left her friends and family shattered (Image: TIM STEWART NEWS LIMITED)
Chris told the Eastern Daily Press: “Carrie sent me this message at the end of January but was told not to post it by advisers but she so wanted to have her little voice heard.
“So many untruths were out there but this is how she felt and my family and I would like people to read her own words.
“Carrie was surrounded by love and friends but this was just too much for her.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
