Belinda Taylor: Mother of four falls to death in skydiving accident as partner Scott Armstrong watches horror

A man who bought his “adrenaline junkie” girlfriend a skydiving experience has watched on in horror as she fell to her death, finding his wife and the instructor’s body after the tragedy.

Scott Armstrong, from the UK, had bought his girlfriend Belinda Taylor a skydiving experience, paying extra for additional height.

However, what was meant to be an exhilarating rush turned into a devastating tragedy as the jump went wrong and Ms Taylor’s parachute did not open.

“The plan was to do a 7000ft jump, but at the last minute she said she wanted to do a 15,000ft one, so I paid the extra money. They were the last group to go up,” Mr Armstrong told The Mirror.

“I was using binoculars and saw them all jump and noticed that one chute hadn’t opened. I was freaking out. They disappeared from view.”

In a desperate and panicked moment, Mr Armstrong jumped into his car and raced to the field in Devon, hoping to somehow help his partner.

When he arrived, he was confronted with a “horrific sight”.

“I found Belinda and the instructor lying there, still together, both clearly dead,” he said.

Ms Taylor, from Totnes near Devon, and her skydiving instructor died instantly from the fall.

“It was a horrific sight. I miss her so much. I’m so lost without her. She meant the world to all of us and we’ll never forget her.”

Mr Armstrong revealed he had bought the gift as a thank-you present after Ms Taylor welcomed his son into her life too.

“Belinda was my absolute world. She was so kind and giving and would do anything for anyone,” he said.

“My nine-year-old son recently came to live with us and she welcomed him with open arms and was brilliant. As a thank you present, I decided to buy her the tandem skydive. She was absolutely buzzing about it.”

Ms Taylor was herself already a mother of four. She had even recently become a grandmother to two young children.

Connor Bowles, Ms Taylor’s oldest son said: “She was a selfless woman who wanted only the best for others and especially her loved ones.”

“She will be deeply missed and will leave an everlasting impression on all those she has met in life.”

In the wake of the tragedy, an official investigation has been launched.

British Skydiving chief executive Robert Gibson said the board’s “deepest condolences go to the families, friends and the skydiving community”.

“A British Skydiving Board of Inquiry will investigate the accident,” he said.