Jury to hear details of mental health bloggers death as family continue to search for answers
10.06.2022 - 20:17
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mental health blogger died after "ingesting" something at a mental health unit in Stockport.
Beth Matthews was just 26 when she died in hospital on March 21 this year after an incident at the Priory unit at Cheadle Royal, Stockport. The "serious incident" saw her transferred to Wythenshaw Hospital, where she sadly passed away later that day.
Area coroner Chris Morris held a pre-inquest review into Beth's tragic death at Manchester South Coroners Office on Thursday, June 9. Beth's parents Jane and Chris, sister Lucy, and former partner Matt were all in attendance at the hearing, accessing the proceedings via Microsoft Teams. All of them are represented at the inquest by Stephen Jones.
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One of the matters her family want to explore in the inquest into Beth's death is a attempt in 2019 to take her own life. Mr Jones told the court that Beth was talked down from a bridge and hospitalised two days before she would return to the same bridge and try to end her own life.
Physical health problems left behind by that incident, including nerve damage, broken bones, and paralysis in some parts of her body, were said to weigh heavily on Beth.
Mr Jones told the court there was evidence to show "Beth was feeling pretty down as a result of her recognising she would not make any further rehabilitation from these injuries" - a key piece of evidence that her family were keen to see taken into account. The family also wish to hear evidence from the ward doctor who "helped immediately with the consequences of Beth's ingestion" on the day of her death.
Claire Smith, police coroner's officer at Manchester South Coroners Court, told the hearing that the police investigations