Heartbroken mother, 36, took her own life saying she ‘wanted to be with’ son, 17, who hanged himself four weeks earlier after break-up with his girlfriend, inquest hears

A heartbroken mother took her own life just four weeks after her teenage son hanged himself following a break-up with his girlfriend, an inquest heard.
Harriet Belmore, 36, was devastated after her son Charlie Belmore-Hawkes, 17, was found dead in woodland near their home on October 2 last year.
She repeatedly declined mental health treatment, despite overdosing on medication and alcohol five days after her only child died.
The laser aesthetics technician who had spoken of ‘wanting to be with her son’ was found hanging on October 31 at her home in Taverham, near Norwich, Norfolk.
The tragic story of their deaths emerged at separate inquests held just minutes apart at Norfolk Coroner’s Court in Norwich

Heartbroken mother Harriet Belmore (pictured), 36, took her own life just four weeks after her teenage son hanged himself following a break-up with his girlfriend, an inquest heard

Her son Charlie Belmore-Hawkes (pictured), 17, was found dead in woodland near their home on October 2 last year
The inquest into the death of Charlie heard he had been involved in an argument with his girlfriend of three years just days before he died.
Det Sgt Matthew Hendry of Norfolk Police said that the row blew up after he had attended a music festival with an ex-girlfriend.
He and his girlfriend argued and she ended up telling him that she wanted to take a break, he said.
Charlie who had recently started work as an apprentice bricklayer was found hanging just days later in a wooded area off Eastfields in Taverham.
Miss Belmore who had split from her son’s father told police afterwards that she had never seen Charlie more depressed than he was following the argument.
Det Sgt Hendry said in a report to Charlie’s inquest: ‘Both sides of his family were loving, responsible people who clearly loved him very much.
‘He was clearly struggling greatly with this matter and his father and mother had not seen him this low before.’
Norfolk’s senior coroner Jacqueline Lake recorded a narrative conclusion, saying Charlie had ‘taken his own life but the evidence does not reveal his intentions at the time.’
A separate hearing was told Miss Belmore had been been admitted to accident and emergency at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on October 7 last year after an overdose of medication and alcohol.
Hospital staff initially recommended she be given a mental health assessment, but it did not take place after she told a member of the mental health liaison team that she wished to be discharged.
Miss Belmore was then referred to the crisis team at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
Staff from the team visited her at her mother’s home on October 11, but she again made it clear she did not wish to receive any support, the inquest heard.
Two days later she was discharged from crisis services.

Laser aesthetics technician Ms Belmore (pictured) who had spoken of ‘wanting to be with her son’ was found hanging on October 31 at her home in Taverham, near Norwich, Norfolk
Melissa Moss, a crisis nurse from NSFT, said in a statement read to the court that Miss Belmore had told the team she was ‘fine’ and that she found offers of support ‘patronising’.
Ms Moss said she had then spoken to Miss Belmore’s mother Frances, and provided contact details for the team and other available support services.
But Miss Belmore was found unresponsive in her home on October 31 and was pronounced dead at the scene, despite receiving CPR.
Ms Lake recorded a conclusion that Miss Belmore had died by suicide.
The coroner said: ‘She self-discharged from the hospital on October 7 and then did not engage with mental health services or her GP.
‘She continued to ask how she would manage without her son – and spoke of wanting to be with him again.’
The inquest heard how Miss Belmore had been on good terms with the father of her son, despite their split.
The medical cause of death of Miss Belmore and her son was given as hanging at the inquests.
Miss Belmore’s solicitor father Michael Belmore also died in tragic circumstances in 2007 when he drowned at the age of 53 while on holiday in Crete. He had founded Belmores Solicitors in Norwich in 1981.
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