A WOMAN who died two days after she was found with a shampoo bottle inside her confided in a nurse that she had been sexually assaulted, a court heard.
Majella Lynch, known as Maj to her friends, had initially refused to tell anyone what was causing her stomach pain but when she arrived at the emergency department at Southampton General Hospital she told one nurse she had been assaulted.
A statement read out to the court from charge nurse Mark Case told how he has asked her if she had been physically and sexually assaulted, to which she replied “yes”.
Mr Case said: “I asked Majella if she had been sexually assaulted. Majella was hesitant to reply and then said ‘yes’. She then looked away and said ‘non, no it doesn’t matter’.”
As previously reported, doctors later scanned the 51-year-old, of St Mary’s Road, Southampton, and discovered she had a shampoo bottle in her abdomen.
The prosecution claim Daniel McBride, 43, of St Deny’s Road, Southampton, inserted it during a “sadistic and brutal act” and is therefore responsible for her murder. He denies the charge.
Majella Lynch
The court also heard how she told her carer, who found her on the morning she was taken to hospital in April last year, she had “never experienced pain like it”.
Jurors were played a call made by the carer Kate Hawkins to NHS 111 during which Ms Lynch describes the pain as “terrible”.
Proceeding.
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