A CHARISMATIC' mental health blogger died after taking a poisonous substance she bought online, an inquest has heard.
Beth Matthews, 26, collapsed in front of hospital staff after telling them it was protein powder. She had been detained under the Mental Health Act and transferred to The Priory's Cheadle Royal psychiatric hospital in Stockport for 'specialist therapy.
The hearing was told Beth took the 'poisonous' substance, which the Manchester Evening News is not naming, after she opened a package bought on the internet. Beth 'quickly became unwell' at around 1.15pm on March 21 last year and paramedics were called.
She suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to Wythenshawe Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 3.55pm. The inquest heard that Beth, originally from the village of Menheniot near Liskeard in Cornwall, had suffered with mental health from an early age.
She suffered severe injuries in a failed suicide attempt after jumping from a bridge in April 2019, the coroner told the jury of six women and five men women hearing the case at South Manchester Coroner's Court.
This story is from the January 10, 2023 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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