Tragic ex-teacher's voice message for estranged husband

A STRUGGLING ex-teacher who took her own life sent her estranged husband a voice note after finding out he'd been 'cycling with another woman, an inquest heard.

-  JOHN SCHEERHOUT

Catherine Disbury, 41, moved out of her marital home after her relationship broken down. She later learned her estranged husband Noel had been seen cycling with another woman. She texted her sister: "It's absolutely sent me off. Why is he doing this to me? I just want to disappear. I don't have the energy." 

An inquest into her death heard that before taking her own life, the graduate sent Mr Disbury a voice note saying: "This is entirely on you. I hope you feel really f***ing guilty because I hate you for everything you have done to me."

Ms Disbury, known as Cate, was found hanged in her bedroom at her cousin's house, where she had been living, on September 10, 2023. Born in Aldershot and the eldest of three daughters, she moved to Manchester in the early 2000s.

She completed her A-levels and went on to study psychology at the University of Leicester before working in mental health and then becoming a primary school teacher, the inquest heard. "She always put others before herself," her sister Victoria Jones said in a statement read out at Rochdale Coroners' Court.