Tragic mum-of-four, 37, who ‘did anything to protect those she loved’ found dead at her ill child’s bedside in hospital
Tragic mum-of-four, 37, who ‘did anything to protect those she loved’ found dead at her ill child’s bedside in hospital
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A MUM-OF-FOUR was tragically found dead at her ill child's bedside in hospital. Hospital staff came across Lindsey Owen's lifeless body on a fold-up bed last May. She had been sleeping in a private room during a routine check on her child at the Royal Stoke University hospital. Lindsey, who lived in Bold Street, Northwood, had been prescribed methadone in an attempt to come off drugs, an inquest heard.
However CCTV showed Lindsey leaving the hospital the day before she died and its suspected she took drugs while away from the ward. Coroner Lindsey Tonks said Lindsey had been using drugs from a young age. The toxicology report confirmed prescribed medication and other controlled drugs and were present in her system. Forensic pathologist Brett Lockyer said: “I gave the cause of death as mixed-drug intoxication.
"The drugs which have contributed to her death included a mixture of diamorphine or heroin, methadone, gabapentin, mirtazapine, codeine, and diazepam. "All of those drugs together, they would have acted together in order to cause her death by suppressing her respiratory system and causing her to go into a deep sleep. "Lindsey would not have known anything about what was happening to her. "She would have just wandered off into a very deep sleep and then passed away while she was sleeping.”.
