THE death of a beloved daughter sent a grief-stricken mother into a spiral of depression, an inquest was told.

Jane Mary Day, 51, died on April 10 of multiple organ failure, eight days after an overdose of about 90 paracetamol tablets at her home in Hall Broome Gardens, Bolton-upon-Dearne. She had been discharged from Barnsley Hospital’s psychiatric unit five days earlier.

Mrs Day had never recovered from the death of her daughter, Bernadette Allington, 28, who had died two days after a lorry jack-knifed into her car. She had started suffering from serious depression last Christmas, the first anniversary of Bernadette’s death.

At the inquest at Sheffield Medico Legal Centre her brother, Jim Rowland, also of Hall Broome Gardens, said that the day before she took the overdose the lorry owner had been in court and had been fined £3,300.

“When we heard that he had only been fined we were all very depressed. I don’t know if that affected her,” said Mr Rowland.

Recording a narrative verdict coroner Chris Dorris said: “She died as a consequence of paracetamol tablets taken at her home on April 3 or 4. She had informed others of her overdose and co-operated with medical assessments offered, but died nonetheless. There is, I suspect, a lesson here for all of us.”