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Fashion queen had drunk weedkiller.
Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London) ISABELLA Blow died after swallowing the weedkiller chemical Paraquat...s Court yesterday. She died after being taken to hospital on Sunday...said: 'In hospital she told doctors she had taken Paraquat, and tests...

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