Experienced skydiver deliberately plunged to death one day after relationship with boyfriend ended
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An experienced British skydiver — who died during a jump earlier this year — deliberately fell to her death just one day after she and her partner had ended their relationship.

Jade Damarell, 32, of Wales, fell into a field in County Durham, northern England, on April 27 and died of blunt trauma injuries, officials said, according to The Guardian. Coroner Leslie Hamilton ruled the death a suicide during an inquest held on Thursday, the outlet reported.

Damarell — who logged more than 500 successful jumps in her career— intentionally failed to deploy her main parachute and disabled her automatic activation device, which would have released a backup chute at a certain altitude and speed if a skydiver was unable to do so, the Guardian reported. Her equipment was found to be functional after her fall, the outlet added.

Damarell had been dating Ben Goodfellow, a 26-year-old fellow skydiver, for eight months before breaking up, according to the Daily Mail.

selfie of Jade Damarell

Jade Damarell died in April during a skydive one day after she and her partner had ended their relationship. (Facebook/Jade Damarell)

Her family accepted the coroner’s ruling and expressed gratitude to the skydiving community for its support, saying they were “incredibly comforted by how admired, respected and deeply loved she was,” the Guardian said.

They remembered Damarell as “brilliant, beautiful, brave and truly extraordinary,” and added that they want to contribute to a “culture where mental ill-health is met with kindness and support,” the outlet added.

Leslie Hamilton did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

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