A “bubbly” hairdresser died after a Christmas Day fall because of a brain haemorrhage, an inquest has heard. Jodie Manley, who was 21, had been at her father’s house in Wibsey drinking and playing cards when she stumbled and fell going up the stairs.

Although she laughed it off and only complained of hurting her elbows at that time, the next day at her mother’s home in Bosworth Close, Allerton, she had to take painkillers for a headache and then later had a fit.

She was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary where a CT scan revealed she was haemorrhaging across the surface of her brain.

Medics battled to stabilise her and get her to waiting neurosurgeons in Leeds, but she deteriorated more and as she underwent brain stem death tests she had a cardiac arrest.

A Bradford inquest yesterday heard how, because of the poor prognosis, the decision was taken not to resuscitate her.

Acting Bradford Coroner Professor Paul Marks said the haemorrhage was caused by the trauma of falling and added that such “a jolt” as the one she suffered in a moment on the stairs would have been enough to cause the injury that proved fatal.

As he recorded an accidental death verdict, he said: “Although the trauma seemed very trivial at the time, it nevertheless had a devastating effect.”

Miss Manley was described by her mother Mandy Murphy as being “bubbly and always happy” and loved by everyone.

The former Rhodesway School pupil had got engaged that July to her childhood sweetheart Adam Crompton, of Lidget Green.