A style advisor, whose property tycoon husband was accused of spying on her with CCTV cameras throughout their £6.9 million divorce battle, was discovered hanged at her house three days earlier than Christmas, an inquest heard.
Tracey Ratcliffe, 53, was discovered useless at her £450,000 semi-detached home in Sale, Higher Manchester, on December 22 final 12 months, Manchester South coroner’s courtroom heard.
Assistant coroner Andrew Bridgman informed the inquest there have been no suspicious circumstances surrounding her dying.
Pals informed the Mail On-line of their devastation. Describing her as “an absolute diamond of a buddy”, they recalled her as “a beautiful individual” who was “at all times dressed to the nines”.
Nicholas Ratcliffe, 64, her former husband, subjected his spouse to a “deplorable stage of coercive management”, a courtroom heard in 2021 in a dispute over their £6.9 million fortune.
The couple had married in 1994 and break up in 2016.
In 2020, Mrs Ratcliffe, a mother-of-two, was awarded £3.45 million in a divorce payout, when a household choose stated the break-up was “among the many most acrimonious” he had ever handled.
The listening to heard how Mr Ratcliffe was stated to have compelled his spouse from their house by utilizing CCTV to observe her.
He was additionally stated to have locked among the inside doorways at their £1.3 million Cheshire property to limit her actions, and left sticky notes across the kitchen that learn “clear me”.
Mr Ratcliffe appealed the payout, in a transfer his former spouse’s attorneys described as one other instance of his “controlling” behaviour.
Mr Ratcliffe had appealed towards the ruling on the grounds that his wants weren’t correctly taken into consideration, and that his former spouse was left with all the household’s money funds and belongings.
Court docket of Enchantment judges backed Mr Ratcliffe’s attraction, saying the earlier evaluation of the dimensions of the household fortune “overstated the true place”.
Anne Hussey QC, Mrs Ratcliffe’s barrister, stated on the time: “Regardless of being conscious of her fragile psychological well being, the husband confirmed a deplorable stage of management and launched into a marketing campaign designed to drive the spouse from the household house.”
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