Bride-to-be, 31, took her own life after bungling cops stormed home & arrested fiancé at gunpoint in mistaken identity

A BRIDE-to-be took her own life after cops stormed her home and arrested her fiancé at gunpoint in a case of mistaken identity, an inquest ruled.

Cherry Turner, 31, was left traumatised after bungling cops put her future husband, Craig Jackson, in cuffs during a raid at their property in Newcastle in December 2021.

Cherry Turner, 31, took her own life after cops stormed her home and arrested her fiancé at gunpoint

Police had arrested Craig Jackson by mistake in the search for another suspect

Cherry’s body was tragically discovered just months later

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The jury at South Tyneside Coroners Court concluded on Friday that she had “experienced extreme trauma” and developed an anxiety disorder.

Cherry took her own life in July 2022 just months after Northumbria Police descended on the couple’s home by mistake with riot vans, armed cops and police dogs.

Craig described the raid in a statement: “I saw green dots reflecting from the wall from the armed police, dogs were barking, sirens were blaring and I was pinned to the ground.”

The force had been investigating a “serious offence” in the area and mistakenly arrested Craig at gunpoint.

Despite quickly arresting the wrong man, it took them two months to tell the couple that they were no longer investigating him.

This came after the real suspect they were trying to track down had been caught.

Following the raid, the court heard that Cherry was left devastated and her mental health spiralled, she couldn’t sleep and she thought cops had bugged her home.

Her body was tragically discovered below Redheugh Bridge over the River Tyne.

Craig has also since died from cancer in another tragic blow, MailOnline reports.

The solicitor representing Craig’s family, Paul Dunn, told a previous inquest hearing: “‘This was not a routine knock on the door, it was the most intrusive of searches, involving multiple police vehicles, an armed response team, all with weapons which were trained on the bodies of Cherry Turner and Craig Jackson.”

He also said that Northumbria Police’s blunder was “only admitted in the context of the investigation”.

Messages between officers that were heard at the inquest also indicated officers knew they did not have the right man.

Dunn also revealed at the hearing that during the arrest, Craig was escorted outside in his underwear before he was taken to a police station.

He added that since the botched raid, every time Cherry heard a police car, she was expecting cops to come back and that they “had potentially bugged her house”.

Craig’s brother, Jake Mottram said that the police knew they had got the wrong man the next day and should have told both Cherry and Craig “there and then”.

If they had done this, he added, Cherry’s mental health “would not have deteriorated”.

Her father, David Turner, spoke after the inquest and said the family had been “living a life sentence of pain”.

“You think of it, I would say 50, 60 times a day, you’re thinking “what’s happened about Cherry” and the sad loss, you know, we’re never going to see her again,” he said.

Her family also said that their daughter hadn’t experienced mental health problems or had any issues with police before the raid occurred.

Following the incident, Northumbria Police issued a statement saying they had “conducted an investigation” and apologised to both Cherry’s family and Craig Jackson for “failings identified.”

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