A womam took her life at the same spot her 16-year-old son killed himself eight weeks earlier, an inquest heard.
The devastated mum Camille Hardman, 45, carried out an exact re-enactment of her talented footballer son Ethan’s suicide after he took his life a few months after his 16th birthday last October.
Following days of his death, a heartbroken Camille was admitted to a mental health unit after her family raised the alarm about her expressing suicidal thoughts.
On December 8, her sister came to her home in Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, Lancashire, to find the doors wide open.
Camille
wasn’t in the house because she had left by the side gate to avoid
being seen on a neighbours doorbell camera, the court heard.
She
left a note in which she described how she struggled to cope since
Ethan died and what she wanted to happen after her death, the court was
told.
After
a search, her body was found at an area known as Forty Step by the same
police officer who had discovered her son’s body there just weeks
before.
Area Coroner Kate Bisset said: ‘This was an absolute tragedy, utterly heart-breaking.
‘Camille was an intelligent, articulate and loving lady and Ethan was the light of her life.
‘When Ethan died she was destroyed by the loss, her heart was broken beyond repair.’
Preston
Coroner’s Court heard Camille, a Human Resources administrator, had a
history of depression stretching back 20 years and had made numerous
threats to end her life.
The inquest heard she found life ‘too
much’ when her only child killed himself on October 14 after splitting
up from his girlfriend.
He was also struggling to deal with the death of his grandmother and the pressure of starting his first job, it was heard.
Camille’s
partner Richard Benson broke down in court as he revealed that on a
number of occasions over the next eight weeks she expressed suicidal
thoughts.
He said: ‘Camille had lots of challenges and had struggles with her mental health. But she was very loving, kind, funny and intelligent.’
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