THE estranged husband of a mother-of-two who took her own life on a railway track described her as a 'wonderful person’, an inquest heard.

When Sarah Ruth Bradley failed to turn up to a family dinner, on Sunday, September 21, last year, her husband Adrian Bradley found her car missing and a table at her home in Boxford littered with addressed letters.

After reading a letter addressed to him, Mr Bradley alerted family and the police.

Mrs Bradley’s body was later found on the railway track at Marsh Benham. A post mortem revealed she died from multiple injuries.

Speaking about his wife at the inquest, Mr Bradley said: “She was a wonderful person and I did everything I could for her.”

He added his wife had been diagnosed in early 2013 with type two bipolar disorder by a psychiatrist. Their marriage broke down and the pair eventually separated in February last year.

Four months before her death, the 43-year-old had voluntarily admitted herself into Prospect Park Hospital. Mr Bradley said that while his wife was at Prospect Park, he tried to pass on details of her previous mental health problems but these were not properly recorded.

An independent investigator told the inquest at Newbury Town Hall last Wednesday that it had been “unwise and potentially dangerous” for doctors at the hospital to fail to record her husband’s comments.​

Recording a narrative verdict, Berkshire coroner, Peter Bedford, said “Sarah took her own life whilst suffering from depression and bi-polar disorder.”

He said that Mrs Bradley had been “discharged prematurely from the community support programme in September 2014 and without psychiatric review while expressing suicidal ideas.”

Mr Bradley said: “Sarah would constantly say she was a terrible mother, people like her shouldn’t have children and the children would be better off without her. She had constant feelings of inadequacy as a mother.”

Having looked after her since they met in 1995, Mr Bradley said: “From my point I loved Sarah very much and I did all I could to care for her for over 20 years. Possibly I did the wrong things, but I did my best and I certainly could not have done any more.”

Mrs Bradley confided in her friends that she thought she had been released too soon.