CHAIRPERSON
If somebody is running a marathon and collapses and dies of heart attack, then it may be said that the fact that he was running a marathon was the cause of the heart attack.  If he hadn't been running a marathon when he got the heart - and he wouldn't have got the heart attack.  Now, I think what Mr Wills is saying is, do you think that the fact that she was being beaten in the fashion described by yourself, brought upon the heart attack?