Police investigating the dying of an adolescent who fell 50ft from a cliff are ready to quiz her boyfriend, who's critically ailing in hospital.
Alesha Wright died after the incident in Thurso, Caithness, on Monday evening which additionally left her 26-year-old associate with critical accidents. An air ambulance and coastguard crews attended however the 18-year-old was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Dominic Lengthy, who was together with her, is being handled in Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. It's understood he's in a crucial situation.
Alesha’s dying is being handled as “unexplained” however police sources stated officers are hoping to talk to Dominic, who is known to have suffered a damaged shoulder and different accidents, as quickly as doable. They goal to ascertain what brought on the pair to fall from Victoria Stroll, a magnificence spot.
A police supply stated: “We wish to converse to Mr Lengthy to ascertain the circumstances main as much as the autumn. We've got been canvassing for witnesses within the space on the time and might be tracing anybody who might have seen something related to our investigation.
"We all know Alesha spoke to her mum only a few hours earlier than and was her typical self, there was nothing in her method to counsel something of concern. The household fairly rightly simply wish to know the way this has occurred and we're making each effort to make sure we are able to present them with solutions.”
Tributes to Alesha have been posted throughout social media. The teenager was described as a “candy shy woman” by her mum, Deb Jo.
Dominic’s brother, Liam wrote on Fb: “She was my sister, I believed her and my brother can be collectively perpetually, it breaks me to suppose how he have to be feeling, if I misplaced the woman I beloved I wouldn’t wish to dwell any extra.”
Good friend Mary Dasent wrote: “Alesha, I by no means acquired to see you develop as much as be the gorgeous woman you turned out to be. Heaven has gained a good looking angel you could have all the time been in my ideas. Sleep tight candy angel.
“My condolences to Debbie and household can’t think about the way you all feeling. My ideas with you all.’
Margaret Mackenzie stated: “Such a pleasant younger woman, taken too quickly.”
Lifeboat crews confirmed they had been known as to the scene shortly after 6pm on Monday evening. In a submit on the Thurso Lifeboat crew stated: “The Y boat was beached and the 2 crew members rapidly positioned the 2 casualties, one male and one feminine.
“The crew members attended to them till the arrival of a paramedic who was winched down from the search and rescue helicopter from Inverness.
"The younger man was winched up by the helicopter to a ready ambulance. The feminine casualty was transferred to a stretcher and brought by the Y boat to The Taylors after which taken to Scrabster the place she was transferred into the care of Police Scotland.”
Police Scotland stated: “Round 5.50pm on Monday, July 11, 2022, officers had been known as to the Victoria Stroll space in Thurso, following a report of a person and girl having fallen from a cliff. Emergency providers and Coastguard attended however an 18-year-old girl died.
“Her subsequent of kin have been knowledgeable. Her dying is being handled as unexplained and enquiries into the circumstances are ongoing. A 26-year-old man was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness for therapy.”
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