Plan to burgle Cilla Black’s Buckinghamshire home foiled, confirms son

Her eldest son, Robert Willis, said he is in shock following the plot. She was knocked unconscious by the fall and subsequently died of a stroke. She was described as a “daughter of Liverpool”.

No witnesses are scheduled to be called for the inquest, but a coroner’s officer is expected to give details about the star’s death before coroner Andre Rebello records his verdict.

He was speaking on the day a coroner ruled Black, 72, died from an accidental head injury at her Spanish villa.

Addressing her sons, the coroner said: “She was your mum and her death is a private personal matter and we have all got one mum”.

The former cloakroom attendant at the famed Cavern Club in Liverpool then went on to become the host of TV shows such as Surprise, Surprise and Blind Date. “That she died from an accidental death, that being the fall that resulted in the traumatic head injury”.

“It is those memories of the ordinary things she did, normal family events, the love shared and the love given, that must be her abiding memory, not just for this generation, but for each born in the future”.

An inquest in her native city of Liverpool, England has now hear that Cilla had struck her head as she fell, suffering a fatal injury.

The home, is thought to be worth around £5million and boasts 10 bedrooms, five bathrooms, an indoor pool, a tennis court and a putting green. “The fall itself was unwitnessed”. The singer and TV presenter was sunbathing on the balcony at her villa in Estepona, Spain when she fell and hit her head.

The investigation was originally set to take place on Thursday, but was postponed just an hour before it was due to start after it emerged that the star’s body wasn’t in the city.

After the service, Cilla will be laid to rest during a private ceremony in Allerton Cemetery, where her parents are buried.

Her spokesperson Nick Fiveash said: “The boys are doing everything following her wishes”. The Very Best Of Cilla Black collection rose up to eighth spot in the UK albums chart, having re-entered the top 20 for the first time in 32 years last week.