Mental patient found hanged in hospital bed

A 24-YEAR-old woman was removed from special observation in a psychiatric unit only days before she hanged herself at a Dublin hospital, an inquest has heard.

Fodhla Murray from Inchicore in Dublin, who suffered from depression, had been on special observation by a psychiatric nurse for a period in the week before her death on June 6, 2005, in St James’s Hospital, Dublin.

Her mother, Eileen Kelly-Holden, who visited her the day before her death, said: “She seemed as normal as she could be under the circumstances.”