A "caring" school worker troubled by an "innocuous" incident as a child was discovered dead in a Travelodge after convincing her parents she was meeting a friend, an inquest heard. Rebecca Blezard, 36, suffered from mental health issues following an experience in her youth which she spent years blaming herself for.
South Manchester Coroners Court heard on Wednesday, March 22, that Ms Blezard's mental wellbeing had spiralled from September 2020 and she had eventually moved back in with her parents. Originally from Oldham, Rebecca had been living in Wakefield at the time while working as an inclusion manager at a school in West Yorkshire, the Manchester Evening News reports.
Health professionals told the court how Ms Blezard constantly said she no longer wanted to be alive and was found standing on the hard shoulder of a motorway just weeks before her death. Her parents were hopeful she was turning a corner in May 2022 when she announced she was meeting a friend for a night out in Manchester city centre and was staying in a Travelodge.
