A British backpacker has killed herself unintentionally after trying to scare her boyfriend following a “silly row”. Abigail Brown, 26, had been out partying with partner James Brum in Phuket, Thailand where the couple then lived. She returned alone to their apartment “in a huff” after the two argued, an inquest has heard.
Upon returning, Brown – who has been described as “fun-loving” and “gregarious” – hung herself. However, it is believed that she didn’t do so with the intention of taking her life. Her mother, Jane Rowland, 50, said she believed it was “only to frighten him or upset him or make him realise how upset she was in that moment”.
Brum, 30, returned to the apartment on January 7 this year after giving his girlfriend three hours to “cool off”, the coroner said. When he got back he found Brown unconscious. Speaking of the phone call she received from Brum, Brown’s mother told the inquest: “James said ‘Abi is gone. We had a silly row, she went back to the room. She hung herself. She’s died’.”
“He said [the row] was nothing. They did not really row. I did not see them all the time but they had a whole future planned. That night she had too much to drink. She had gone back in a huff. I know in her mind she thought he was going to follow her back, find her and they would move on and never have that row again.”