Inquest hears style guru’s suicide was fourth attempt

STYLE guru Isabella Blow killed herself by taking 20 times the fatal dose of weedkiller Paraquat, a coroner ruled yesterday.

Ms Blow, the fashion director of Tatler magazine, had tried to take her own life at least three times before — by jumping off a bridge, ramming her car into a lorry and overdosing on tablets, her youngest sister Lavinia Verney told the hearing in Gloucester.

Gloucestershire coroner Alan Crickmore recorded a verdict of suicide after hearing the 48-year-old told hospital staff she wanted to die.