Lucy Harrison<\/a>, a fashion buyer from Warrington in Cheshire, had been staying with her father Kris Harrison and his family in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Prosper when she died.<\/p>\nAn inquest into the 23-year-old\u2019s death is being held at Cheshire Coroner\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Ms Harrison\u2019s boyfriend Sam Littler told the inquest that he had travelled with her to the US, where her father had moved when she was young, for a holiday.<\/p>\n
He said Ms Harrison would often become upset with her father when he spoke about his ownership of a gun.<\/p>\n
The inquest also heard that Mr Harrison had previously been to rehab for alcohol addiction.<\/p>\n
On the morning of 10 January, when Ms Harrison and Mr Littler were due to return home to the UK, there was a \u201cbig\u201d argument between Ms Harrison and her father about Mr Trump, who was to be inaugurated as president, Mr Littler said.<\/p>\n
\u201cKris and Lucy ended up having quite a big argument which led to Lucy running upstairs and being upset.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Ms Harrison had asked her father: \u201cHow would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I\u2019d been sexually assaulted?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much, Mr Littler said.<\/p>\n
He told the coroner\u2019s court that later that day, about half an hour before they were to leave to go to the airport, Ms Harrison had been in the kitchen, when her father took her by the hand and led her into his ground floor bedroom.<\/p>\n
About 15 seconds later he heard a loud bang and then heard Mr Harrison screaming for his wife, Heather, he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Littler said: \u201cI remember running into the room and Lucy was lying on the floor near the entrance to the bathroom and Kris was just screaming, just sort of nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Harrison\u2019s mother, Jane Coates, said her daughter, who worked for fashion brand Boohoo, was a \u201creal force of life\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cShe cared. She was passionate about things. She loved to have debates about things that meant a lot to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Harrison did not attend the hearing to give evidence.<\/p>\n
Ana Samuel, representing him, made an application at the start of the hearing for coroner Jacqueline Devonish to recuse herself from the case, saying a fair-minded observer may conclude there was a real possibility she was biased.<\/p>\n
She said the inquest had been conducted \u201cin a manner more akin to a criminal investigation than a fact-finding inquiry\u201d.<\/p>\n
Lois Norris, representing Ms Coates, said the application was an \u201cambush by Mr Harrison\u2019s legal team\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said Mr Harrison was the \u201cperson in the room who shot Ms Harrison\u201d and the only person who was in the room when it happened.<\/p>\n
Ms Devonish refused the application to recuse herself.<\/p>\n
The inquest is expected to conclude on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-418395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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