Her boyfriend buried her alive, dug with his own hands and managed to escape from his own grave

Stacey Gwilliam has died twice. The woman, who was 34 when her boyfriend attacked her, was buried alive by her boyfriend Keith Hughes and managed to live to tell the story, although the post-traumatic shock of the attack and aftermath they did not leave her alive. and she died six years later …

Stacey was determined to end her relationship with Hughes, a bodybuilder and painter by profession, but this decision changed her life completely and the abusive 39-year-old man strangled her and buried her in the woods, according to Infobae.

The woman managed to escape from the well in which she was buried, dug with her own hands and came out alive from her grave. The dramatic event took place in 2015 and now the story is back viral.

Before the attack in a local Welsh forest, the femicide had told her: “If you’re not mine, you’re nobody’s.” There she tried to strangle her, she dug a well and dumped her body in it. Hughes did not know the woman was alive.

Stacey has literally come out of her own grave. The woman pulled her hands out from under the ground and after coughing from swallowed dirt and lack of air, she started walking as far as she could until she was found by police officers who they were passing by.

The woman reported: I escaped from my own grave. Keith tried to kill me,” she repeated, yelling at the officers.

The carabinieri immediately set out in search of the body builder along the roads close to the woods where the attack had taken place, until they found the car and followed it. While attempting to escape, the attacker crashed his car and was arrested.

“They’ll never find her,” he yelled at the officers as they handcuffed him, unaware that the woman was on her way to hospital for treatment.

Three months passed before the woman could be released from the hospital. She suffered post-traumatic shock and had to learn to walk again. Six years later, in 2021, the woman died at just 40 years old.

“After the attack, Stacey suffered from severe depression and anxiety. She also repeatedly had pneumonia from the dirt she swallowed when she was buried alive,” doctors explained in the bodybuilder’s trial.

The victim suffered a lung infection and self-medicated. TO Stacey was found dead in her bed the day after contacting her doctors about the illness. and toxicology reports found a number of sedatives in her system that had been prescribed to her.

The official cause of Stacey’s death was bronchopneumonia with combined drug toxicity. “There is no evidence that she intended to commit suicide,” the medical report explained.

Despite her tragic story, Stacey was able to hear Hughes’ condemnationEven if it wasn’t what I expected. The attacker was sentenced to life in prison, but was given the benefit of probation after spending about 8 years in prison, on good behavior.