Jenna Greenwood, left, killed herself nine months after her boyfriend Kallum Bates, right, hanged himself
A grieving mother-of-two whose boyfriend took his own life hanged herself months later, an inquest heard.
Jenna Greenwood, 31, a health care assistant of<_ www.examiner.co.uk="" all-about="" calderdale-royal-hospital=""> Halifax, West Yorkshire, was found dead at her home by an ex-partner who was returning her two young children.
Bradford Coroner’s Court heard that she was in debt and was suffering from depression and sleeping problems as she struggled to come to terms with her lover Kallum Bates’ death in August 2016.
The inquest heard her grief was so intense was her that she had even consulted a medium after his death, according to her father Stephen Greenwood.
Coroner Martin Fleming heard evidence that Miss Greenwood’s death came as a ‘bolt from the blue’ to her family and friends, several of whom attended the hearing.
The night before her death in May 2017 she had attended a family BBQ and her father said ‘no-one had any cause to have any concerns about her.’
But Mr Greenwood added the following day her ex-partner found her ‘in very, very distressing circumstances’ at her ‘immaculate’ home in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.
Miss Greenwood began dating Mr Bates, a scaffolder, in 2014, but he hanged himself aged 22 after losing his own battle with depression.
Mr Fleming said: ‘I’m told that she took this really badly and struggled to come to terms with it.’
The court heard she was ‘doing her best to cope’ with the loss as well as working and bringing up two young children and ‘seemed to be in good spirits’.
Mr Greenwood, of Bridlington, East Yorkshire, was asked by the coroner whether she had ever said she had ‘dark thoughts’ or had ever expressed any intention of hurting herself.
An inquest heard Miss Greenwood, left, had been struggling with depression and sleeping problems since Mr Bates, right, died
He replied: ‘I know she had gone to see a medium, a fortune teller if you like. Unfortunately these people prey on people’s misery.’
Mr Fleming said it appeared to be a ‘one-off visit’ and said it appeared to be ‘an attempt to find some comfort’ to which her father replied: ‘Solace, yes.’
The coroner said it was clear from her GP’s statement that the ‘heart-breaking loss’ of her partner who had died in similar circumstances had a big impact on her.
He said there were no suspicious circumstances and concluded that she had taken her own life.
Mr Fleming described the case as ‘desperately sad.’
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