Tragedy of mother who died from horrific head injury after falling from horse

A parent has died aft falling from a equine that she had owned for conscionable a fewer weeks.

Louise Goudman suffered a bleed to the encephalon aft falling from her horse, Bobby, connected May 2.

She passed distant successful infirmary 3 days aboriginal - conscionable a week earlier what would person been her 41st day yesterday.

The Glasgow livery wherever Ms Goudman was a lawsuit said she had been having ‘teething problems’ since purchasing the equine and they had been trying to ‘iron them out’.

But aft suffering a ‘bad fall’ portion riding Bobby 10 days ago, Ms Goudman sustained a superior caput wounded and ne'er regained consciousness.

Her spouse Malcolm Cameron paid tribute to his ‘beautiful partner’ who ‘died doing thing that she loved’.

He said the equine would present beryllium looked aft by Our Childrens Trust, a foundation adjacent Carluke, Lanarkshire, which provides holistic therapy for families affected by trauma and grief, aft deliberating ‘long and hard what was the champion Louise affable happening to do’ portion ‘morally knowing’ that ‘no 1 tin thrust Bobby again’.

Mr Cameron has present launched a fundraising leafage to assistance enactment the foundation with the outgo of the horse’s upkeep.

In a moving connection helium said: ‘My beauteous spouse Louise tragically died connected the 5th of May 2025, a week earlier her 41st birthday, pursuing a equine riding mishap a fewer days earlier.

‘She died doing thing that she loved. She adored animals and wouldn’t person blamed her young horse, adjacent with his flaws, whom she had lone known a mates of months.

‘We deliberated agelong and hard what was the champion Louise affable happening to do, whilst morally knowing nary 1 tin thrust Bobby again. We don’t privation anyone to beryllium enactment done the bosom ache of having their loved 1 wrenched from their lives successful specified an unexpected and abrupt way.

‘This foundation that rescue and re-house horses champion conscionable our needs and person kindly agreed to look aft Bobby.’

He added that the funds raised from the justgiving leafage volition spell towards paying for his upkeep.

In a societal media station the livery astatine South Cathkin Farm, Rutherglen, Glasgow, said it was ‘devastated’ astatine the decease of its client, who was described by those who knew her arsenic a ‘kind psyche and a existent carnal lover’.

It said: ‘It is with large sadness that we mislaid 1 of our beauteous lawsuit Louise Goudman who had been livery with america a fewer years backmost past precocious purchased her caller equine Bobby a mates of months ago.

‘Louise was having teething issues with Bobby and we were trying our champion to robust them out. Unfortunately she took a atrocious autumn connected Friday 2 May and ne'er regained consciousness. She sadly passed distant connected Monday 5 May.

‘We are each devastated for Louise’s household present astatine South Cathkin particularly having a young household losing their mother.’

Within conscionable a fewer hours of the fundraising entreaty going online, much past £2,500 had been raised for the equine arsenic supporters paid tribute to a ‘lovely girl’.

One said: ‘I’ll miss our chats regarding dogs and horses. We are lone chatting the greeting of [the accident] too. I cognize however overmuch you loved him and your dogs. I’ve not stopped reasoning of you.’

Another added: ‘I volition miss you Lou - can’t judge I’ll ne'er spot oregon talk to you again. I volition everlastingly cherish the memories and stories we person from navigating motherhood together.’

One idiosyncratic said her decease was ‘heartbreaking’ and ‘a reminder that our athletics is unsafe and our horses tin beryllium truthful unpredictable’.

To donate, spell to https://www.justgiving.com/page/louise-1