''I'm just a waste of space": Final heartbreaking text of troubled mum-of-four who overdosed on Mother's Day

 

A troubled mum-of-four overdosed on Mother's Day after she sent a text message to a close friend saying: ''Sorry hun but I'm just a waste of space.''

Casey-Jo Lee, 31, from Crewe, Cheshire, had reportedly been hiding mental anguish stemming back to a failed marriage. Before sending the text where she talked about being a waste of space, she texted fellow mum Anna Jones late at night revealing her plans to take her life. She also sent an ominous text to her boyfriend hinting at suicide.
Casey-Jo wrote to Anna Jones: ''Feel a bit depressed, I'm going to kill myself tonight.''
Tragically Miss Jones, who lived nearby, was asleep at the time the message arrived and did not see it until it was too late, an inquest heard. The alarm was raised the following morning when she answered a knock at her front door to find Casey-Jo's children standing on her doorstep.
Casey-Jo also sent her boyfriend, Shaine Tench, an early hours text saying: ''You never believe how much I love you. When I see your grandad I'll tell your grandad - and you will believe me".
The inquest heard Casey-Jo had been on antidepressants but was not sleeping well and was advised to undergo counselling.

Miss Jones, who had known Casey-Jo for two years said: "I would see her every day we would go to school together and help each other out. She wouldn't really tell me if she was having a hard time. On Friday night we had a drink together, she wouldn't drink that much, she was not a regular drinker. We had a nice evening together - she went home around midnight. She was ok. I saw her again on Saturday and there was no problems. The only thing she asked me for was a bit of money because she had nothing in. We would help each other.
"I received a text around midnight but I was asleep it was saying she was depressed and telling me she was going to take some tablets and was going to go. She had never said anything like that before. It was a terrible shock, she always put a strong face on.
"We had a knock on the door the next morning and her son came and her daughter and the baby at about 9:30, they were by themselves and I went back with them to the house. I went around and found her on the kitchen floor.''
Casey Jo's boyfriend said he was going to meet Casey on the Saturday but she asked him not come as she was unwell.
He added: "She was a very good mum, she would be one of the last people on the earth I thought would have done this. 'My plan was to sleep around my home because it was Mother's Day the following and I was to spend the morning with my mum then I would go round to Casey-Jo's.
"I told her I would go round and take the children to the park while she made dinner. We spoke throughout the evening, she was fine then she started sending paragraphs. She first started with messages and they were upsetting. They were never directed at me, they were just that she was not happy with life, she was feeling down.
"Throughout the night I continued to get messages but they began not to make sense and were spelt incorrectly. I continued to reply and then got no answer. It was going back and forward, one minute she was absolutely fine and the next she wasn't. I believed she had had some alcohol. She was saying she was going to take an overdose. I started walking to her house and got a message saying 'don't come, my mum and dad are here'.
"At this point, the messages started getting jumbled up one message said 'It's Lena' and I thought someone was there then looking after her. She sent me a photo half way through the evening of tablets in her mouth - and straight away I called her. She was quite religious and believed in God and she took oath that she didn't take the tablets. I'm sure when Casey said that it was something I believed.
"One of the last messages I got from Casey read something like 'you never believe how much I love you when I see your grandad I'll tell your grandad and you will believe me'. I received a phone call at about 10 a.m. from my friend telling me that Casey-Jo had passed away. I initially hung up because I was trying to block out the news."

Casey-Jo's mother Lena Finney, said: "There had been a lot of upset in her life and she had a bad marriage. But this came completely out of the blue, she had never done anything worrying before. Her sister said she had done a few stupid things but nothing like this."
Recording a drug related death, Coroner Janet Napier said in the absence of a written letter, she could not be certain Casey-Jo intended to take her own life.
Miss Napier added: "Casey-Jo had children and they loved and cared for her. It was her own actions that caused the paracetamol and alcohol levels to be high but I cannot find any evidence of her being deeply depressed and seriously thinking in a non-intoxicated state that she intended to end her life.
"We really don't know what was going on in her head but she was deeply upset. I don't think she was in a fit state to make a fit decision. She was a very good mum and cared deeply for her children and had a very good support system. She was very happy to be near her family and had a good neighbour as well."

Source: LIB