A key witness in the trial of a vicious torture gang plunged to her death after climbing out of a window in a block of flats.

An inquest in Bradford heard that Lisa Galloway had become suicidal in the months after the trial of her torturers.

However, coroner Roger Whittaker told the hearing that he was satisfied she did not mean to kill herself after hearing that Miss Galloway was shouting for help whilst hanging from the sixth-storey ledge.

"I discount absolutely that Lisa Galloway took her own life. Once she was out of the window it's clear that she wanted to get back up into the flat," said Mr Whittaker.

Miss Galloway helped to jail six men for a total of 91 years when she told a jury in October last year how she had been kidnapped, drugged and beaten by the gang who were looking for £250,000 worth of missing heroin.

Isere Forrest, a friend of the 37-year-old who was in the flat at the time, told the inquest that Miss Galloway had been scared for her safety.

"She was really worried and upset. She had just been through a big Court case and thought that people still wanted to get her," said Miss Forrest.

"Lisa had felt suicidal and had wanted to do herself in. She had just had enough."

Miss Forrest broke down in tears as she described how the two had argued in the moments leading up to the fall.

She said: "I was seeing to my baby when she said 'I'm going to climb out of the window' and I said 'don't mess about' but then I realised that she was actually out of the window.

"She was hanging there, she had her hands on the edge of the windowsill and her body facing the wall.

"I grabbed hold of her but I was going out as well then. I gripped her by the wrists and she was trying to get a foothold. She wanted to get back in. 'Please help me' she said. She was calling my name but I couldn't hold on and she fell."

The mother-of-five was pronounced dead on the way to hospital.

Peter French, who lived in the flat below, at Windsor Court, Swarland Road, told the hearing that he saw a pair of legs appear at his window.

He said: "I heard someone say 'try and pull me up'."

At an earlier hearing the inquest was told by Professor Christopher Milroy, a Home Office pathologist, that Miss Galloway had large amounts of heroin and cocaine in her blood at the time she died.

He also said that he could not rule out that Miss Galloway had been pushed but PC Lindsay Greenwood said there was no reason to suspect foul play.

Recording a verdict of accidental death, Mr Whittaker said: "There is no evidence that anyone else was involved."