Young mum tragically took her own life after struggling with traumatic event when 'something happened in London'

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A young mum from Lancashire tragically took her own life after experiencing a traumatic event the year before - with mental health services admitting there were 'some failings' in her care.

Paula Halliday hadn't seen her two young girls since an incident in October 2021 and on a number of occasions had taken overdoses and said she wanted to end her life. The 33-year-old, who was born in Buckinghamshire where her family still live, was being seen by mental health services at the time, LancsLive reports.

At an inquest into her death in Preston Coroner's Court on Thursday (April 28) heard that there had been 'failings in her care'. Paula, an auxiliary nurse who worked for the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, had started seeing Amy Cooper in September 2021.

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"I rang the crisis team once when she was texting me at night because she was just beside herself and I didn't know what to do," Miss Cooper said. "She was drinking a lot, every day. In October 2021 something happened in London and she was quite traumatised by it.

"She was seeing someone from the mental health team every week and they would ring her every other day to check in on her but she felt let down by them and said they weren't listening to her. She was always seeing someone different so she kept having to go over what happened every time and she found that really distressing."

Samantha Ferguson, a matron at Lancashire Care which is part of Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust which provides mental health services, admitted there had been several failings in Paula's care. The inquest heard that the team had been unwilling