A mother of two children has died a really tragic death after getting her head stuck in window railings while reaching for a cigarette.
Kimmy Varma
Kimmy Varma, a 64-year-old mum of two died when she poked her head through railings fitted to her top-floor flat’s window and got stuck.
According to The Sun UK, the woman is thought to have been leaning out to have a cigarette.
She frantically battled to free herself by grabbing at the curtains, an inquest was told. But her neck was trapped by a curve in the ornamental bars and she choked to death.
A jogger spotted her two hours later in Cheltenham, Gloucs.
A cop who broke in found the curtain rail’s screws pulled out. The houseproud mum, who was estranged from her husband, was said by her family to have been reluctant to smoke inside.
A pathologist said she had also been drinking, which may have affected her ability to free herself.
Gloucester coroner Caroline Saunders ruled the death an accident.
The mum’s shattered daughter Pia later told how a fortune-teller predicted the bizarre tragedy weeks earlier.
An aunt rang her from India to pass on a warning to stay away from railings “or something bad would happen”.
The daughter said: “I never told my mum.”