A much-loved mum-of-two tragically took her own life after becoming a 'shadow of her former bubbly self', an inquest heard.
Nicola Hanley had spent the afternoon and night of Friday December 30 last year with friends in her local pub in the village of Langho, Lancashire.
She made several "odd" comments throughout the course of the night and at times appeared "dazed" but she appeared to snap out of it.