A TRAINEE hairdresser has died four months after she suffered a heart attack following a reaction to tablets she had taken for a bad back.
Melissa Walker, 17, is believed to have been drinking wine at her mum's birthday party when she took the prescription tablets which had not been prescribed to her.
The Chronicle understands that soon afterwards she had a cardiac arrest which stopped the flow of blood and oxygen to her brain, causing permanent damage.
Melissa was taken at first to Barnsley hospital but in recent weeks she had been receiving treatment at the Keresforth Centre, with a view to her being allowed home. She died in the centre on Sunday.
Yesterday police officers were with her mum Jackie at her grandmother’s home on North Royds Wood, Athersley North.
Det Insp Nigel Donohue said: “The police have begun an investigation into the circumstances leading up to her death on behalf of the coroner.
“Some time in the future those circumstances will be dealt with at a coroner's inquest.”
