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Henry Vaughan

Caroline Flack: Met Police refers itself to watchdog over contact they had with star before her death

The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog following the death of TV star Caroline Flack.

Scotland Yard's directorate of professional standards reviewed all previous contact with Love Island presenter Flack, 40, before making the referral on Wednesday.

It is standard practice for a referral to be made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) when a person who has had recent contact with police dies, the force said.

A statement said: "No notice of investigation has been served on any officer and no conduct issues have been identified by the DPS. No officer is on restricted duties or suspended."

Former Love Island host Caroline Flack died at the age of 40 (SWNS)

An IOPC spokesman said: "We will make a decision on the level of our involvement after carefully assessing the information we have received. Receipt of a referral does not mean an investigation will necessarily follow."

Flack was found dead on Saturday after taking her own life as she awaited trial for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton, 27.

It is thought Caroline had been assessed by paramedics the day before she passed but was not taken to hospital.

It comes after Caroline's family released an unpublished Instagram post that the star wrote in the days before her death, in which she said that within 24 hours her whole world and future had been swept from under her feet.

The TV host described the domestic incident with Mr Burton as "an accident".

She wrote: “On December the 12th 2019 I was arrested for common assault on my boyfriend.

"Within 24 hours my whole world and future was swept from under my feet and all the walls that I had taken so long to build around me, collapsed.

"I am suddenly on a different kind of stage and everyone is watching it happen.

"I have always taken responsibility for what happened that night.

"Even on the night.

"But the truth is ... It was an accident."

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