Mother ‘died after tower block leap’
Rachel Hall was agitated and pleading for medication when she was sent home from St Vincent’s Hospital, Fairview, her family said.
Gardaí were also called to her mother’s Ballymun home three times just hours after her release because of serious concerns over her safety.
Early the following morning, the 34-year-old’s lifeless body was found at the foot of Coultry Road flats.
A ligature, made from an electrical flex, was discovered hanging from a stairwell of the sixth floor of the tower block.
Family members at the hearing into the death at Dublin City Coroner’s Court criticised the hospital for not giving them enough help and sending their sister home in a taxi.
When a statement from consultant psychiatrist Dr Jogin Thakore was about to be read at the hearing, they demanded he show up in person to answer questions.
“We just all want to know why she was let out?” said her sister Sandra Kearney, of Finglas.
The inquest heard that Ms Hall suffered post natal depression after the birth of her youngest daughter and recovered with shock treatment, but suffered from suicidal thoughts for the 18 months before her death.
She had cut her wrists and tried to hang herself and jumped from her own seventh floor balcony, Ms Kearney said.
Just five days before her death she again threatened to jump but was talked down by gardaí.
