A woman who was rushed to hospital on Monday morning after injuring her head in Maple Cross has died overnight.

Elita Eltermane, 43, injured her head on Friday evening, while celebrating a friend's birthday party in Ladywalk.

Her partner, Peter Collins, 44, said: “Elita fell down and hit her head on the bin. I was only a small cut, it stopped bleeding in about five minutes.

“She was fine after that, we even did a bit of shopping and went for a walk on Chorleywood Common on Sunday, she loved the countryside and getting out and about.

“She was very intelligent, she went to music school for ten years and could play the piano, she spoke four languages and had a degree in German.

“On Monday she woke up really early and was really unwell, being sick, I called an ambulance and we went to the hospital where they told me it was a brain haemorrage.”

Mr Collins met Ms Eltermane in Uxbridge where she lived, having moved to England from Latvia 15 years ago, and the couple had been together for about four months.

He said: “The hospital said on Monday that there wasn't a lot they could do, but one minute she was improving and the next she wasn't.

“Yesterday they started reducing her medication to see if she could cope, and she just couldn't, I begged them not to turn the machine off because I thought that miracles do happen.

“It's just so sad, we had so many plans, on Tuesday she was supposed to start an improve your English course at West Herts College, she was going to sing with the Latvian Choir in London later this year, we wanted to go on holiday and generally have a better life.”

On Monday the Watford Observer reported how police cordoned off the house to allow forensic officers into the scene, but after further investigation are not treating the incident as suspicious.

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