A second post-mortem has been carried out following Cilla Black’s unexpected death and new details surrounding the circumstances have emerged.
It had already been confirmed that the star died of a stroke brought on when she fell backwards and hit her head on her terrace wall. The impact knocked her unconscious and caused bleeding on the brain which triggered the stroke.
However, it has since emerged that she lay undiscovered for five hours having had the fall shortly after she went to her room for a siesta sometime between 12.30pm and 2.30pm. She was found around 5.30pm when her son Bobby failed to rouse her… Read the full story