A world championship dancer plunged to her death from the balcony of a luxury Caribbean hotel after her fiance told her he wanted to call off their wedding plans, an inquest has heard.
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Shakara Taylor, 31, was 'distraught' after David Ravenscroft, her partner of nearly four years, called off their planned nuptials, saying he wanted to 'wait and see where we are in six months' time.'
Despite the set-back, the couple remained living together in Georgetown on the Cayman Islands, and after dropping him off at a spa in May 2013, Miss Taylor took a lift to the seventh floor of the Caribbean Club hotel.
Just minutes later, she was found sprawled across the courtyard outside the hotel's main reception, where she was pronounced dead, the inquest heard.
A Blackpool coroner has now recorded an open verdict, saying he was unable to conclusively state if she had ended her own life.
In a statement read out to Blackpool Coroners' Court today, her fiance Mr Ravenscroft said he and Shakara had set July 6, 2013, as the date for their wedding.
But in March 2013 he said he want to postpone the marriage which had left her 'down in the dumps'.
Just weeks later she dropped him off at a health club and gave him a hug and kiss goodbye before promising to pick him up later.
But when he later texted her he received no reply and got a taxi home, where police informed him of Miss Taylor's death.
Miss Taylor, formerly of Blackpool, Lancashire, was seen on CCTV heading to the seventh floor of the Caribbean Club hotel - the only floor that could be accessed without a membership or guest pass - before she was spotted on cameras lying on the ground outside the resort.
Her cause of death was recorded as multiple injuries to the chest, head and abdomen as a consequence of a fall from height.
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