Horrid accident.
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Yes it was and how awful for her nephew to find her body. All for the sake of a bacon sandwich too ā almost unbelievable but that was reckoned to be what happened.
Incidentally your original link was incomplete so would not work, there was a character missing, an āhā at the start of the URL so have amended this below, hope this was OK:
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I canāt even imagine how you could manage to do that.
Must have been horrible for whoever found her.
Thanks Baz46. 
I first read this yesterday and I couldnāt understand how it had happened - I mean, wouldnāt you just rip the PJās off yourself, to stay alive?
I thought that ā¦ unless it was a one price type thingy without much stretch in it , even so ā¦ still doesnāt sound possible does it.
You are welcome, more than pleased to help out. 
No, it doesnātā¦I mean, PJās are supposed to be loose and comfy. Where was the oven situated anyway that she couldnāt either sit/stand on the ground and relieve the pressure on her neck, or grab a knife (if she was making a sandwich) and cut the material. Its a tragedy.
The coroner said ā¦
āIt is very unusual that someone who was fit and well managed to suspend themselves accidentally from the oven door.
āWhat appears to have happened is that for some reason she has fallen and caught her pyjama top on the lower handle of the oven door.
Iām a bit baffled ā¦ Iād need to see her oven.
It seems so unlikely that Iād say it was a case for Quincy, M.E. ā¦ 
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I think youāre right.
What seems odder is that this happened because she decided to make a bacon butty for her nephew before going to bed ā¦ yet ā¦ she was found hanging in the morning.
Did the nephew not wonder where his bacon butty was and go and investigate?
Maybe she hadnāt told him she was doing it? I mean, maybe she just did it as a surprise? No, its just too ridiculous.
Iām going to say it - its a horrible thing to have happened, but I donāt think it was accidental.
It does make you wonder about foul play.
But if I were going to make it look like an accident it might have been simpler, and more believable, to have made it look like sheād slipped and cracked her head.
Well if you want to discuss murderous techniques that you can get away with, make a thread! 
She was a barmaidā¦used to lifting and carrying heavy stuff. The coroner said she was fit and well, I still donāt see how she couldnāt just claw off her PJās. 
I would jump on the counter top to relive the pressure. Still seems very odd to me.
Hmmmā¦ if she were down on her knees and unable to get up, so in effect was left hanging?
Iād open the flamin oven door to lower it.
Youāre right ā¦ itās more than odd or bizarre . itās erm ā¦odder!
Ok, so lets say she has that type of oven up there. She drops a bit of bacon and bends down to get it. The oven door (or grill) would be opened up anyway. How would you get tangled up? I agree maybe a corner of your PJās could get caught on the corner but a quick snap off would fix that. To get ātangledā up, means she would need to be down and around or something. Maybe she banged her head on the corner and fainted, hence the weight of her on the snagged PJās, on her neck might have been enough to keep her passed out?
That sounds as likely as anything Miss Marple ā¦ but if so she was one very very unlucky lady.
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