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Hempstead

American  
[hemp-sted, hem-] / ˈhɛmp stɛd, ˈhɛm- /

noun

  1. a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.


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Essex Coroner's Court heard how Samuel West, Ms Hempstead's partner who witnessed the incident, told police she got "caught in the crossfire" after throwing the McDonald's chicken nugget in the air for her pomeranian and rottweiler-mastiff crossbreed, who went to snap at the smaller dog.

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"You didn't have to worry about him with anything, he wasn't vicious in any way, shape or form," he told the court, adding that Ms Hempstead occasionally fed Trigg food from her mouth.

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In a letter read out to the court, Ms Hempstead's mother Karen described her daughter as "loving, resilient, not afraid to speak her mind, hard working, caring, extremely brave, resourceful, generous".

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Senior coroner for Essex Lincoln Brookes described Ms Hempstead's death as a "double tragedy", having come just weeks after the death of her eldest daughter.

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Cummings, who had also lived in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, was arrested at his mother's home in Weymouth, Dorset.

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