Burns woman later contracted MRSA in hospital

A 40-YEAR-OLD woman who deliberately set herself alight subsequently developed superbug MRSA and died at the burns unit at Dublin’s St James’s hospital, an inquest has heard.

The mother-of-two from Stephen’s Court, New Ross, Wexford, doused herself in paraffin while her partner desperately tried to stop her from setting herself alight using a cigarette lighter on December 10, 2005.

Her partner told the inquest previously that she suffered from depression and became upset on the day she set herself alight because her car failed an NCT test.