A mum walked out of a mental health ward and fell to her death from a multi-storey car park less than two hours later, an inquest heard yesterday.
Dione Brennan, 25, of Glenfield, had prepared a bottle for her two-week-old baby a few hours earlier.
She was found dead at the bottom of the eight-level John Lewis car park, in Leicester city centre, after leaving the Bradgate unit at Glenfield Hospital on May 24 last year. The hearing at Leicester Town Hall was told Ms Brennan had been admitted to the unit a week earlier, after being talked down from the roof of a car park.
Health care worker Maureen Handley said Ms Brennan was a voluntary patient and could come and go as she pleased.
She said: "She prepared a bottle for her baby and told me at about 8.15am she wanted to go out to the shop and possibly stop for a coffee on the way back. She seemed well. There was no cause for concern."
Ms Handley said she was shocked when she found out Ms Brennan was dead.
Pathologist Lawrence Brown said Ms Brennan died of multiple injuries consistent with falling from a height.
Ms Brennan's aunt, Mary Lloyd, said her niece should have been detained under the Mental Health Act and watched more carefully.
Consultant psychiatrist Tina Richardson said there was no need to detain Ms Brennan as she agreed to stay at the unit to be assessed.
Ms Richardson said: "She was not mentally ill clinically. We were making plans for her smooth transition to going home."
The hearing continues.
