"I thought she would wake up": 'Loving' mum, 35, found dead at tower block had taken GHB to help her go to sleep... her partner rang a dealer before 999

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A 'loving' and 'bubbly' mum found dead at a Stockport tower block had taken GHB in order to help her get to sleep, an inquest heard. Charlotte Ford, 35, was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of her flat in Offterton, which she shared with her partner of four years and their young son, last July.

After being unable to rouse her, her partner rang a drug dealer before calling for an ambulance a Coroner was told. John Ingram was initially arrested before detectives later concluded her death not to be suspicious.

A post-mortem found she had died as a result of the 'fatal combination' of three drugs – GHB, Methamphetamine and Codeine. A coroner said she believed Ms Ford may have used street drugs in a bid to deal with chronic pain she lived with after suffering a broken leg in an accident eight years ago.

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Ms Ford's mother Lesley Ford said the 'bad' accident in 2014, no details of which were given in the hearing, but which left her needing to use both a walking stick and sometimes a motorised chair, was "life-changing" for her daughter. However her father Mark Ford said she was a "lovely, bubbly gir" who was "very positive, very outgoing and who was loved by lots of people."

On August 20 last year, the day before her death, Ms Ford had been a day out to Buxton with her mum and other family members, the inquest heard. She returned to her flat in Beaver House, at Victoria Park in Offerton, at around 5:30pm that evening and messaged her mum saying she would be popping round the following morning with a surprise for her.

Ms Ford then paid a visit to a friends' house in Bredbury and helped her pal, who was going out