Paramedics and police sent to help a mother who became trapped headfirst underwater should not have assumed she was dead when they arrived, an expert has told an inquest.
Emergency services were sent to the seafront in Lowestoft, Suffolk, following reports that Saffron Cole-Nottage, 32, had fallen and become wedged between sea defence rocks as the tide came in.
The hearing in Ipswich has already been told that the first emergency responder to arrive, paramedic Colleen Gibson, failed to tell other rescuers the mother-of-six could be saved.
Giving evidence today, pre-hospital emergency care specialist Professor Richard Lyon said none of those sent to
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