A school worker tormented by an 'innocuous' incident from her childhood was found dead in a Travelodge after convincing her parents she was seeing a friend, an inquest has heard. Rebecca Blezard suffered a 'mental block' following an incident in her youth which she spent years blaming herself for, South Manchester Coroners Court heard on Wednesday (March 22).
The 36-year-old, from Oldham, had been living in Wakefield while working as an inclusion manager at a school in West Yorkshire. But her mental health spiralled from September 2020, before Ms Blezard eventually moved back in with her mum and dad.
Health professionals told the court Ms Blezard constantly claimed she no longer wanted to be alive, and she was found stood on the hard shoulder of a motorway just weeks before her death. Ms Blezard's parents had hoped she was turning a corner when in May 2022 she announced she was meeting a friend for a night out in Manchester city centre, where she would stay in a Travelodge.
