«Breaking News» Mother-of-two, 59, renovating home died when 6ft wall collapsed

Jayne Chaffey, 59, died while working on the house she bought with husband Andrew

A mother was killed renovating a buy-to-let property with her husband when a 6ft garden wall collapsed on top of her.

Jayne Chaffey, 59, died while working in the garden of the house she bought to makeover in the Welsh valleys town of Mountain Ash in Rhondda Cynon Taf.

An inquest heard Mrs Chaffey had been 'joyfully weeding and decluttering' plants from the garden of the hillside property bought at auction for £40,000.

The couple had snapped up the terraced home as a renovation project one month earlier after husband Andrew retired as a sergeant from his police force.

The mother-of-two was just moments away from finishing for the day when she declared she had 'earned a glass of Prosecco' - but tragedy struck when the breeze block wall came crashing down.

Former Avon and Somerset Constabulary firearms sergeant Mr Chaffey told how the pair chose the house as a property investment bought at auction for their retirement.

Mr Chaffey said: 'We liked the property and on coming away we knew there were a few minor maintenance issues but the main thing to fix was the rear garden.

The couple (pictured together) had snapped up the terraced house as a renovation project one month earlier after Mr Chaffey retired as a sergeant from his police force

'We decided the best course of action was driving up with our friend to tackle the garden.'

The husband and wife, along with a friend, drove 90 miles from their home in Taunton, Somerset, to the house in Mountain Ash.

An inquest heard former Taunton register office registrar Mrs Chaffey had filled six bags of brambles from the overgrown garden in October last year.

But moments later, the garden wall suddenly collapsed on top of her.

Mr Chaffey said he had been trying to secure a wooden fence next to the wall after noticing it was leaning into the garden.

Mr Chaffey said the death of his wife Jayne had caused 'devastation' for him and his family

He pushed the fence with a metal pole but suddenly heard a big bang behind him - and heard his friend shout 'Jayne.'

Mr Chaffey said: 'The soil we were on started to give way and we started to fall. I saw Jayne was sat up. She looked like she had passed out.'

The inquest heard Mr Chaffey saw his wife's head roll to one side as he felt blood on her clothes. He desperately performed CPR on her until emergency services arrived.

Mr Chaffey said: 'Nothing will ever describe the devastation that Jayne's death has caused me and my family.'

The inquest in Pontypridd, South Wales, heard Mrs Chaffey was taken 18 miles away to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.

But she died from her injuries in the early hours of the following morning surrounded by her family.

The couple had driven 90 miles from their home to the house in Mountain Ash (pictured)

A post mortem examination found Mrs Chaffey died from severe hypoxic brain injury due to a cardiac arrest from a spinal injury.

Coroner Andrew Barkley recorded a conclusion of death caused by an accident.

Mr Barkley said: 'Mrs Chaffey suffered catastrophic and unsurvivable and devastating injuries both to her brain and to her spine.

'She was almost immediately rendered deeply unconscious.'

Mr Barkley added that it was unclear how the wall collapsed. Police found there were no suspicious circumstances.

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Jayne Chaffey, 59, died while working on the house she bought with husband Andrew

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