The sister of murdered British backpacker Hannah Witheridge was pregnant when she died in hospital after years of complications following surgery, an inquest has heard.
Miss Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, was found dead on a beach in Thailand on September 15 2014 and her sister Laura Daniels, 30, died at Southampton General Hospital on September 16 2019.
An inquest in Portsmouth, attended virtually by her widower Lewis Daniels and parents Tony and Sue Witheridge, heard that Mrs Daniels had surgery in 2011 for the rare condition trigeminal neuralgia, which causes facial pain.
Laura pictured with her husband, Lewis Daniels. An inquest heard that Mrs Daniels had surgery in 2011 for the rare condition trigeminal neuralgia,
n undated file composite handout picture made available by Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office shows British students Hannah Witheridge (left) and David Miller (right), who were found murdered on the island of Koh Tao in Thailand on 15 September 2014
Mrs Witheridge wept at one point in the hearing and said: 'You lose one daughter, you don't expect to lose another.'
Robert MacFarlane, consultant neurosurgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, said the operation involved making an opening in her skull to access the nerve.
He said Mrs Daniels had a 'variety of problems' afterwards, including spinal fluid leaking through the wound, and she required multiple operations.
Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp, area coroner for Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton, summarising Mr McFarlane's evidence, said: 'Laura had a relatively rare condition, particularly for someone of her age, for which the options are medication, which some people don't get on with, or surgery.
'The surgery was
