By: Drizel Hanley
BASSETERRE, St.Kitts (Tuesday 15th May 2018)-An autopsy performed yesterday (Tuesday) on the body of 34-year-old Petronella Hinds, who originally hails from Guyana, has revealed that her death was a result of Asphyxia due to Bronchial Aspiration of Gastric Content.
In laymen’s terms, as understood by this media house, such means that content from the stomach refluxed up high enough into the throat to cause some to get into the trachea and then into the lungs which leads to suffocation/choking.
Resident Pathologist, Dr. Adrian Nunez-Quintana on the Guyanese woman, a resident of Cane Garden, who reportedly died in a home in Fahie’s Estate in Nevis on Thursday 10th May.
Her motionless body found in a house in Farms Estate by members of the Emergency Medical Service after they responded to an emergency call that someone was having trouble breathing.
The police were subsequently contacted and upon arrival, EMS informed that the woman was unresponsive.
It is understood that a male who resided at the Farms Estate home was taken into custody and later released.
PHOTO: Petronella Hinds