'She felt she couldn't carry on'
A school worker tormented by an 'innocuous' incident from her childhood was found dead in a Travelodge after convincing her parents she was seeing a friend, an inquest has heard. Rebecca Blezard suffered a 'mental block' following an incident in her youth which she spent years blaming herself for, South Manchester Coroners Court heard on Wednesday .
Yet Ms Blezard had instead booked a room at the hotel in Audenshaw, Tameside, where she stayed for three nights before being found dead by a member of staff. Her father, James Blezard, told the court he first became aware of his daughter's mental health issues when receiving a call from her workplace in September 2020.
The court heard Ms Blezard spent around eight weeks at a hospital in Barnsley, where she was 'in absolute distress' and would 'cry her eyes out' during visits from her family. Following her discharge, Ms Blezard went back to live with her parents in Oldham. Assistant coroner Adrian Farrow described the incident referred to as something 'relatively innocuous sounding' which took place when she was 10 or 11 years old. Ms Blezard returned to Rotherham for a short time before coming back to her parents' in early 2022, while her mental health continued to struggle.
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"She had spoken about visiting Switzerland [for euthanasia] but realised it was not an easy way out." Dr Manoj Kumar, consultant psychiatrist, increased Ms Blezard's dose of anti-depressants in the months before she died - and told the court it was 'surprising' that it had not seemed to work.
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