Overview

• The inquest at Swansea’s Guildhall reviewed the January 21 fall on a WHSmith escalator in the Quadrant Shopping Centre
• Medical testimony identified traumatic lacerations to Margaret Rose Harris’s right leg as the source of uncontrollable external bleeding
• Evidence showed her prescribed anticoagulants apixaban and aspirin significantly exacerbated the hemorrhage
• A safety inspection confirmed there were no mechanical faults with the escalator or hazards in its surroundings
• Senior coroner Aled Gruffydd delivered an accidental death verdict on August 6 and closed the case without issuing recommendations