- In a statement read by the Coroner’s Officer,
- her husband of 36 years
- told how all seemed normal
- when he went to work,
- but when he returned home
- the following morning
- with their son
- his wife was in the back room, lying half
- on the bed.
- They phoned 999.
- The operator talked them through CPR
- until the parademics arrived.
- She had been unable to work for about ten years
- due to a dengerative back disease.
- She had depression for about five years.
- She had started suffering from stomach pains
- and had also been extremely upset
- due to a tribunal regarding her incapacity benefit
- which had taken from her.
- The pathologist who carried out the post-mortem
- said she had eight times the lethal dose
- of dothiepin, a prescribed anti-depressant,
- and four times the dose of propanolol,
- a beta-blocker
- which stabilises the heart,
- in her system.
- He also found codeine and paracetamol
- in her body.
- The coroner said
- ‘Her husband had gone
- to work,
- she was alone.
- Things must have just
- swept over her,
- suddenly
- she found her life
- intolerable.’
[Blackpool Gazette, 09/12/2008, Back problems led to fatal dose; via Web Archive at 19/04/2016]