Depressed mother found dead in bath

Oct 30 2008 by Joanne Douglas, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A MOTHER of two stabbed herself in the stomach three times after suffering from depression.

Alison Mottershead was found in the bath at her Meltham home by her estranged husband, who was concerned about her.

The 42-year-old had suffered with depression after the death of her father and post-natal depression after the birth of her second child, both in 2005.

Doctors were treating her condition, but her estranged husband, Graham Mottershead, told an inquest into her death that she had previously said she wanted to kill herself.