A WORCESTER woman killed herself after taking an overdose of methadone and sleeping pills, an inquest has heard.
Worcester coroner Victor Round told the inquest at Stourport-on-Severn yesterday that 40-year-old Tina Lowry was found by her brother Paul on her bed at her home, in Ransom Avenue, Cherry Orchard, on Saturday, August 23, with a suicide note beside her.
The inquest heard how Miss Lowry had a history of using heroin but about two months before she died she had started taking methadone.
Reading from a statement made by Sgt Jon Wallis from Worcester CID, Mr Round said Mr Lowry had been staying with his sister for a few months.
He added that when Mr Lowry had found his sister's body, there was a "goodbye letter" to a number of people next to her.
"On the bedside cabinet there was also an empty blister pack of zopiclone tablets," he said.
Pathologist Paul Dunn gave the cause of death as inhalation of vomit due to an overdose of methadone and zopiclone - sleeping tablets.
Mr Round recorded a verdict that Miss Lowry had taken her own life.
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