Woman dies after being strangled by dog leads

Tributes paid to mother-of-four Deborah Roberts from Wrexham, North Wales

Denbighshire County Hall heard there was no suggestion of suspicious circumstances (Google)

A mother of four died after being strangled by dog leads during a walk, an inquest heard.

Deborah Mary Roberts, 47, was found lying prone in a grassland area in Garden Village, Wrexham, north Wales.

The alarm was raised by a young girl who ran to get help from two workmen on Southleigh Drive.

She told them her friend was choking and they arrived to find Ms Roberts with the leads around her neck being pulled by two dogs, the hearing was told.

Paramedics were unable to revive her and she was pronounced dead at the scene on 8 July.

Denbighshire County Hall was told a postmortem examination had given the provisional cause of death as asphyxia due to strangulation.

John Gittins, senior coroner for North Wales East and Central, said there was no suggestion of suspicious circumstances.

He adjourned the inquest to a date yet to be fixed.

At Ms Roberts’ funeral on Wednesday afternoon tributes were paid to ”a much-loved wife, mum, mother-in-law, nana, auntie and friend who will be remembered for her kind, bubbly, caring loving nature, her upbeat energy and her beautiful smile”.

Ms Roberts was born in Wrexham and left school at 16 to start work at a bakery. She got married in 1996 and had four sons and two grandchildren. Her two dogs were named Tyson and Ruby.

Her son Callum wrote on Facebook: “My brothers and I are so overwhelmed by all the lovely comments about my mum, she really was one of a kind and we’ll miss her so much.”

A fundraiser set up in Ms Roberts' memory has so far gathered £1,500 in donations to the Huntingdon’s Disease Association.

Additional reporting by agencies