An accounts manager tragically discovered dead by her boyfriend in the bath of a Tunbridge Wells hotel weighed under seven stone and needed crutches to walk, an inquest heard.

Emily Sarah Greenfield Walsgrove, a former Tonbridge Girls Grammar School pupil, was 36 when she was found at the Russell Hotel, in London Road, in March.

Coroner Roger Hatch ruled an open conclusion into her death, at an inquest held today at Maidstone's Archbishop's Palace.

A post mortem revealed she died from drowning coupled with acute alcohol intoxication and epilepsy.

The court today heard Emily was known to suffer with “pathological use of alcohol and alcohol related fits”.

Det Sgt David Turner said Emily had been “considered an alcoholic for a number of years”, and frequently relapsed.

She also suffered with anorexia since the 1990s, and weighed just 42kg two weeks before she died.

“She was walking with the aid of crutches but when she was walking she would frequently fall,” Det Sgt Turner said.

Emily had been staying at the hotel with her partner of six weeks Matthew Good, also an alcoholic.

“Two days before her death laughing was heard coming from room 42. On Monday night Emily had spoken to her mother, she explained she would stay at the hotel for one more night, she sounded very happy through the call,” Det Sgt Turner added.

On the night of March 26, the pair bought alcohol before falling asleep.

“At 8.45am Matthew could hear the bath running and saw Emily in the bath under water with her eyes open. Hot water had been running down into the overflow. He said he felt her pulse and she was dead.”

Mr Good told police a bottle of vodka was three quarters full when he went to sleep, but was empty when he woke up.

The court also heard Emily’s blood alcohol level was “four times above the legal limit of driving.”

Reading a pathologist's report, Mr Hatch said: “There were no extensive or internal injuries to suggest sustained or violent assault, no features to suggest third party blunt force trauma assault.”

Det Sgt Turner, concurred with the findings, saying there is “no evidence in this case to suggest any direct involve with third party and no evidence of third party activity.”

Mr Hatch said: “There is no certainty as to how Emily Walsgrove came by her death. In these circumstances I have no alternative but to record an open conclusion.”

Since her death, Emily's family have raised more than £3,500 for a mental health charity.

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