Bizarre The Story of Two Sisters Who Died In A Fold-Away Bed

In 2005, one of the most bizarre accidents imaginable happened at a holiday resort in Benidorm, Spain. British sisters Mildred Bowman (62) and Alice Wardle (68) who were staying at the Levante Club Apartments, were killed when the frame of the pull-down bed in the studio apartment they were staying in fell on top of them while they slept

Police officers who investigated the incident said cuts and bruises on their hands suggested they had made desperate attempts to free themselves. Despite their desperate attempts to free themselves, they simply couldn’t move the unit. The coroner later ruled that both sisters died of asphyxiation.

It’s believed they gave way after the bed was incorrectly lowered by the sisters, who were never given instructions on how to unfold the bed. There were no instructions in their room showing how it should be assembled.

After going missing on a Sunday morning, over the next few days friends scoured Benidorm trying to locate them. Even pushing a note under there door, unaware that they were trapped inside the room. Their bodies were discovered on Thursday morning after repeated attempts to clean the room had failed.

A post mortem examination concluded they died between 11 pm Wednesday and 2 am Thursday. Which would have meant they were trapped in the bed for around four days. “The deceased died as a consequence of being trapped for an indeterminate time by a collapsed bed unit and in circumstances that could and should have been avoided.”

In December 2008, three years after the death of the sisters, a Spanish court cleared holiday resort bosses of wrongdoing. This was despite screws and wall plugs on the bed’s wall-mounted storage unit not being fitted correctly.

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