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STRANGE DEATHS

eborah Roberts, 47, was strangled to death after two dogs pulled on their leads which she was wearing around her neck as she walked them, an inquest heard. She had been walking two Staffordshire bull terriers in Wrexham when, it is believed, she may have stumbled due to her Huntington’s disease, an inherited, degenerative condition, which causes mobility deterioration. It is possible that the dogs may have been trying to get her to stand up again after a fall by pulling on.

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