A CORONER has ruled that a Hanbury woman died as a result of a stab wound to the chest.

The Worcestershire coroner Geraint Williams recorded that 43-year-old Karen Wild was stabbed to death in her home in School Road on January 30 last year.

No verdict was recorded as the case has now moved on to criminal proceedings.

Mrs Wild was discovered by paramedics at the family's rented house in School Road with serious stab wounds at around 4.30pm on Thursday, January 30, but despite their efforts she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her 22-year-old son, Lian Wild, who is partially sighted, was arrested a short time after and has been charged with her murder.

Mrs Wild had been a campaigner for the reopening of the Lido in Droitwich and the family had lived in Ombersley, Droitwich and Astwood Bank, Redditch, before moving to Hanbury nearly two years before her death.