Woman died in tent after cocktail of drugs

A young woman with mental health and addiction issues, evicted from a flat after losing her rent allowance, was found dead in a tent in Cork City after taking a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.

Cork City coroner Philip Comyn yesterday returned a verdict of misadventure after the inquest into the death of Jennifer Dennehy, 30, originally from the Blackrock area of Cork City but who had been sleeping in a tent for several weeks before her death.

She was found unresponsive by her friend, Ian Drummey, at around 11am on September 1 last in the tent pitched in Gilabbey Park, off the Western Rd, on the city’s southside.