Cassie Collins and Francis Collins were believed to have been extremely close.
A married couple were discovered dead together with their pet dogs after they agreed to a suicide pact, an inquest heard.
Cassie endured years of living in chronic pain due to knee and shoulder injuries that left her unable to work and often bedbound. Cassie's mum Deborah Coombes explained how her daughter and Francis had begun living together in Exeter and then moved to Chelmsford where Cassie did her nurse training. Deborah said she had been aware Cassie had struggled with suicidal thoughts but hoped she would not act on them.
Cassie's sister Jodie told in a statement read out during the inquest how her sister and Francis had spoken in the past of wanting to kill themselves. Jodie said Cassie had previously spoken about not being able to live with the pain she was in and that the pending police investigation had left the couple 'really low'.A post-mortem examination stated the cause of Cassie’s death was the combined toxic effects of fentanyl and alprazolam. The cause of Francis’s death was asphyxia due to hanging. He was also found to have taken a substantial about of alprazolam which was '"likely" to have caused intoxication.
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