THE father of a woman who committed suicide said he was happy with the meeting he had with an independent commission to discuss the circumstances surrounding his daughter's death.

Doug Meadows, father of Karen Meadows, yesterday spoke to representatives from the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), which is beginning its routine inspection of mental health services at Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

"They listened to me and I gave it to them chapter and verse," said Mr Meadows. "Now they have to go away and check out everything I have told them.

"They will come back to me with what they have found and decide whether they can take it any further."

The Meadows family has always believed that Karen should have been sectioned because of her previous attempts to kill herself.

But psychiatric teams told the family that Karen, who suffered from depression, was not a danger to herself.

However, just one day after being told this, in August 2002, Karen's body was found hanging by a dressing gown cord attached to a banister at her home in Melbourne Street, Worcester.

Mr Meadows will also meet with Marion Smith, the corporate affairs manager for the mental health trust, on Friday, October 10.