A woman nicknamed 'The Boss Lady' because of her love of independence hanged herself just hours after a cocaine-fuelled row with her boyfriend.
Alexandra Green, 27, had been been drinking wine and snorting the drug during a night in with Damian Smith, but she asked him to leave when they began rowing at midnight.
Mr Smith returned to the property in Chester city centre in Cheshire three hours later after she sent him a flurry of texts.
But he found Alexandra dead at the top of the stairs. Tests showed she had 'recreational' levels of cocaine in her system. An inquest heard Miss Green, who lived with her French bulldog Roman, had dated Mr Smith for over two years, but the couple had frequent arguments.
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