Overview
- Coroner Robin Weyell recorded a narrative conclusion that Jessica Reynolds did not intend to take her own life.
- A post-mortem found massive liver damage from paracetamol toxicity, with death caused by multi-organ failure.
- Evidence showed she took a large intentional paracetamol overdose about a month earlier and did not seek hospital treatment.
- In the following weeks she used paracetamol for toothache, reportedly an entire packet every two days, leading to a toxic accumulation.
- Doctors provided antidote therapy, ventilation and dialysis, transferred her to Addenbrooke’s, and placed her on the urgent liver transplant list before she died on 25 July 2025.