The skilled UK skydiver thought to have intentionally jumped to her dying final month had been dumped by her boyfriend the night time earlier than, in line with a brand new report.
Jade Damarell — who had greater than 400 profitable jumps — was killed immediately throughout her final skydive on April twenty seventh as she crashed right into a farmer’s area in County Durham in northeast England.
Damarell, 32, was dumped by fellow skydiver Ben Goodfellow, 26, only a day earlier than the deadly bounce, the Day by day Mail reported.
“The two of them were inseparable,” an nameless good friend informed the Day by day Mail of the pair, who dated for round eight months.
“They spent all their time together, they didn’t really engage with anyone else. They did skydives together all the time.”
“The night before Jade died, Ben called off the relationship,” the good friend added.
“He went to work the next day, and that’s when Jade fell to her death,” the good friend mentioned.
The couple had lived collectively in a double room at a property rented out to parachutists close to the airfield for a number of months, in line with the outlet.
Goodfellow was additionally a technician at Nissan and the lead guitarist and vocalist for indie band Publish Rome, which cancelled a gig shortly after Damarell’s dying attributable to “unseen circumstances,” the outlet mentioned.
Police mentioned Damarell’s dying is “not being treated as suspicious” — and the corporate she jumped with mentioned that “all indications from the police and British Skydiving are that this was a deliberate act taken to end her own life.”
A good friend beforehand informed the Day by day Mail that “everyone is devastated and deeply traumatized” by the 32-year-old’s dying as a result of “she was very much part of the skydiving community.”
“She was mad for the sport,” the unidentified good friend mentioned. “In just the two days before she died, she did 11 jumps. She must have done 80 this year.”
At the very least one individual witnessed Damarell bounce to her dying, in line with the outlet.
The native police division, the Durham Constabulary, mentioned: “Her death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will now be prepared for the coroner.”
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