Businesswoman, 26, lay dead in hot tub in her parent's garden for THREE days

Ella-Louise Tunney, 26, had an epileptic fit and fell in her hot tub

Ella-Louise Tunney, 26, had an epileptic fit and fell in her hot tub

A young businesswoman who drowned in a hot tub in her family home after having an epileptic fit was not found for three days. 

Ella-Louise Tunney's father called police after she appeared to vanish from their home in Eton Wick, near Windsor in Berkshire. 

He searched nearby fields and phoned her workplace, in a desperate bid to find her.

When police searched the property three days later they lifted the lid of the hot tub and found her submerged beneath the water, wearing swimwear.  

Family members looking for Ms Tunney had passed it numerous times but did not think anything was amiss as the lid was closed. 

Investigators believe the lid was blown across the tub by the wind, concealing her body. 

Ms Tunney had been painting her nails ahead of spending an evening in the hot tub with friends when she fell in. 

The friends did not turn up as arranged, an inquest heard, so the alarm was not raised.  

Ms Tunney had been diagnosed with epilepsy as a teenager but had managed to keep it under control with medication. 

But in November 2017 the condition worsened and she suffered black outs. On one occasion, she had to be dragged out of the bath by a colleague on a work trip.

When she disappeared on June 23, her father Lee Tunney assumed she had gone to sleep in the annex which she lived in, some 60 yards from the main house at the end of the garden. 

When she failed to appear the next day, he thought she might be out watching the World Cup with friends, despite having left all of her belongings at home.

The 26-year-old's body was not found for three days because the cover blew over her

The 26-year-old's body was not found for three days because the cover blew over her

By Monday, June 25, Mr Tunney began desperately searching a field across the road looking for his daughter, the Berkshire coroner was told.

It was only when police arrived and searched the Tunney's home and grounds that Ella-Louise was discovered in the hot tub.

Emma Jones, assistant coroner for Berkshire, heard from her father and her sister, Jodie McGlinchey, who had posted across social media to try to find her.

Mr Tunney told the inquest: 'Ella was expecting friends around in the afternoon to play in the hot tub. 

'Ella asked me to set the hot tub up, which I

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