Christine Flack has been investigating her daughter’s death and made a TV documentary looking at the decision to prosecute her for allegedly ‘beating boyfriend Lewis Burton with lamp’
Caroline Flack’s mother Christine Flack has bravely opened up about heartbreaking allegations made against the TV presenter in 2019. At the time reports circulated that the Love Island presenter had ‘beat her boyfriend’ with lamp and was preparing for a court trial about those allegations when she took her own life.
Prior to her death in 2020, Flack was dating tennis player Lewis Burton. In December 2019, she was arrested and charged with assault. She was alleged to have Lewis him with a lamp, however, a police report stated that she had confessed to hitting him, but with a mobile phone.
At the time, a spokesperson for the Met Police told The Independent that Burton’s injuries were not “serious” but he was treated by paramedics and taken to hospital. It was later said that he sustained a head injury.
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A section from the police incident report was read out in court at an inquest after Caroline’s death, in which she said: “I did it, I whacked him round the head like that.”
The report added that she did a swinging motion with her right hand to show police what she did. She was said to have told officers “I hit him, he was cheating on me. I admit I did it, I used the phone”.
After Flack’s death, Burton took to Instagram to share that his “heart is broken”. He posted a picture of of the two of them at a beach bar and wrote in the caption: “My heart is broken we had something so special.
“I am so lost for words I am in so much pain I miss you so much I know you felt safe with me you always said I don’t think about anything else when I am with you and I was not allowed to be there this time I kept asking and asking. I will be your voice baby I promise I will ask all the questions you wanted and I will get all the answers nothing will bring you back but I will try make you proud everyday. I love you with all my heart.”
He went on to date Lottie Tomlinson, the younger sister of former One Direction star Louis Tomlinson. The two have been together since November 2020 and have two children together and got engaged in 2023.
Lewis is no longer a professional tennis player. He owns a luxury lifestyle and concierge service called Twenty3 Club who aim to “create memories that last a lifetime”
Prosecutors initially only wanted to give Flack a caution, but a senior police officer pushed for her to be charged and said it was in the “public interest”. The company’s services include booking luxury travel experiences, hospitality packages for sporting and music events, and organising corporate events and charity auctions.
Christine Flack criticised the decision to charge her daughter at the time. She said: “If it was an ordinary person, you wouldn’t have bothered.”
Caroline Flack committed suicide in February 2020, and her mother has spent five years investigating her death. In an interview on This Morning, she directly addressed the “myth” about her daughter beating Burton with a lamp.
“I want the myth of her beating someone with a lamp completely gone, you know. And I think this film proves that, and all those awful headlines that were out there at the time, you know, don’t just believe everything you read about someone.”
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Source: Mirror
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