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Woman desperate to settle down found hanged 'after becoming depressed as friends started to get married'

 

Business development manager Danielle Saul had been ambitious, bright and fun-loving when at work and socialising but secretly longed to settle down and marry.

She eventually began to sink into a depression as her friends started to wed while she lived alone with her cat.

Although she was invited to hen parties and was asked to be bridesmaid Danielle sent messages to her best friend saying, "I feel like dying", as well as a photograph of herself crying.

Tragedy struck in June last year after she went out partying with friends in Manchester city centre when she bumped into a former long-term boyfriend.

She invited the unnamed man and his friends back to the flat she owned in Fallowfield, Manchester, for further drinks and but became upset when he left the following day without them reconciling.

She was found dead three days later when a concerned friend visited the apartment after not hearing from her. Tests later revealed she was twice the drink-drive limit.

A Manchester inquest heard Danielle had graduated from Edge Hill University in Liverpool with a degree in education and art and began working in recruitment. She moved from Preston to Manchester and led an active social life.

Her mother Karen, from Preston, Lancs told the Manchester hearing: "She had had a couple of long-term relationships, one of which was around five years ago, and then that broke up but she still had feelings for him and found it difficult.

"I think she had an overload that weekend with the upset from her previous relationship. She had met up with that person and I think she hoped they would get back together.

"She had a difficult time at work a few months prior to that in her previous job where she had a very difficult boss who got her upset.

''I believe she went to the doctors about that in November 2014, and it seems around then three or four of her best friends got married.

"At the time quite a number of her friends were getting married and she was going to hen parties and she was going to be bridesmaid and I think she got overloaded with these things and emotionally things became exaggerated."

Speaking of her daughter's possible intentions, Mrs Saul added: "It might have been a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Had she talked about it we would have been there for her."

Danielle's best friend Lucy Nixon, who had known her for 15 years, said she met up with Danielle before their planned night out on the Saturday before her death.

"She was very down," she said. "She has seen her ex the night before when she bumped into him and his friends and went back to her flat for more drinks and she was down about that because they had left and not reconciled the relationship.

"She always used very intensive words and we were expressive with one another. Saying 'I feel like dying' would not be unusual. She sent me a photo of herself crying on Saturday. Going for drinks would be a huge distraction and she wouldn't bring that up. She did tell me in 2014 that she wanted to see a counsellor because she needed to deal with her demons."

A post-mortem exam revealed Danielle had 162mg of alcohol in 100mg of blood. The legal limit is 80mg. No note was found with her body.

Recording a conclusion of misadventure, coroner Jean Harkin said there was not enough evidence to prove Danielle intended to take her own life.

"It is clear she was experiencing some stresses at work and in her personal relationships," she said. "It is clear that her family don't believe she intended to take her own life.

"I must be satisfied that Danielle intended to die by the act. I don't feel I have the evidence beyond reasonable doubt that she intended to die. I believe the evidence points to an attempt.

 

"I believe alcohol may have had an intoxicating impact whereby the full outcome of her actions main mot have been totally realised."

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