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From the
https://www.kentlive.news By Andy Robinson, 19 October 2018.
A girlfriend, 27, went to the beach with her partner and stepson and
suddenly died.
Paramedics attempted to resuscitate Jade Lines for almost an hour.
Miss Lines had gone for a walk after saying she had a headache.
A man rushed to a pub to get a defibrillator for his girlfriend after
she suddenly collapsed in front of him, but staff could not find the
key.
An inquest heard that Jade Lines, 27, had been out for a day at the
beach on the Isle of Grain with her boyfriend Chris Savage and his son,
Ashlee, 11.
Miss Lines had complained of headaches on that day, May 4, so they had
gone out for a walk.
But she suddenly collapsed on the way back to her boyfriend's home and
died at the scene.
An inquest into Miss Lines' death was carried out by assistant coroner
Katrina Hepburn at the Archbishop's Palace in Maidstone yesterday
(October 18).
The cause of death was given as sudden arrhythmogenic death syndrome,
also known as SADS.
It causes a cardiac arrest caused by an irregular rhythm of the heart
and often leads to a sudden death.
It is common for the individual to be unaware of the medical condition
which can run in families.
A GP report detailed how she had been treated for depression when her
fiancée Colin suddenly died of incarceration of the lung.
Her sister Naomi Lines told the courtroom: "She wasn't herself. I was
with her when he died and it was traumatic.
"She was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder."
Ms Hepburn admitted at the end of proceedings that "it might well have
been the stress" that contributed to her death.
A police report filed by DS Martin Carter said officers were notified by
the ambulance service of Miss Lines' collapse at 9pm that day.
She had collapsed at the side of the road by St James' Church of England
in High Street, Isle of Grain.
They established a cordon but found no suspicious circumstances or signs
of third party involvement.
The South East Coast Ambulance service's evidence stated that they were
called at 8.50pm.
They arrived at 9.07pm but after an hour's attempt at resuscitation,
there was no heart beat.
At 10.07pm, Miss Lanes had died.
CPR was administered by passers by who called 999.
The fire service then took over as the first responders after two young
boys on pedal bikes raced down to the station and banged on the doors.
Mr Savage had gone down the road to The Hogarth Inn to find a
defibrillator but the pub was unable to locate the key, he told the
inquest.
Ms Hepburn is set to contact the pub to ensure this has since been
rectified.
Professor Mary Sheppard gave a cardiovascular pathology report due to
the unknown circumstances but due to the sudden cardiac arrest with a
normal heart, she gave a diagnosis of exclusion.
She also advised the family to be screened as arrhythmogenic deaths can
be genetic.
'There is no explanation'
Pathologist Dr McKenna also added that there were no abnormalities and
that it was a morphologically normal death, giving the cause of death as
a diagnosis of exclusion.
In her conclusion, Ms Hepburn said: "Depression medication did not
contribute to her death.
"The post mortem showed nothing apparent to explain her death. The heart
was sent to Ms Sheppard but showed the heart was normal and found a
diagnosis of exclusion.
"I reach the conclusion that the death was naturally occurring.
"It seems that this is a case where there is no explanation and this is
a diagnosis of exclusion.
"I find that Jade Lines died of sudden arrhythmogenic death syndrome and
that is the conclusion that I reach.
"The conclusion that I reach is that this is a naturally occurring
death. I'm very sorry for your loss."
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