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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Paul Britton & Sophie Halle-Richards

'Heartbreaking. So avoidable...' anger and despair over death of mum-of-four 'failed at every level'

Furious Manchester Evening News readers have vented their anger and despair following the shocking death of a loving mum-of-four from Tameside who was 'failed at every level.'

Karen McBride was found dead at her home in Stalybridge after years of struggle and fear over money and 'uninhabitable' living conditions.

An inquest into her death heard that the anti-poverty campaigner had been 'wrongly pursued' over benefits debt and moved into a housing association property in a 'very poor state with a myriad of serious restoration work needing to be done.'

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