Inquest Hears 44-Year-Old Mother Of Two Killed Herself With Suicide Kit

Jane Colechin, 44, searched online for a deadly chemical after being signed off from her charity role when the project she managed lost its funding.

These details come straight from the inquest evidence into her demise, which formed part of a more comprehensive Metropolitan Police inquiry into multiple fatalities linked to the same substance.

According to inquest testimony, Jane — a mother of two and a charity worker described as ‘loving, fiercely intelligent, vivacious and unfiltered’ — had been struggling with extreme anxiety after being signed off work when her project lost funding. During this time, she repeatedly researched the deadly chemical online and tracked the delivery of a parcel containing it.

Police investigators discovered 1,360 search instances for terms related to the substance on her phone between 1 December 2024 and 1 January 2025. She also accessed a website containing details about suicide and the chemical. Her partner discovered her on 1 January after returning home with their children. Toxicology later confirmed exceptionally elevated levels of the chemical in her system.

Her death is one of dozens that the Metropolitan Police are looking into as part of a cluster linked to the same drug that has been used in other suicides and marketed online.

Another report documents that Jane Louise Colechin, 44, was among the cases under investigation, with her cause of death recorded as toxicity from the substance.

Jane had been signed off from her charity role and was experiencing considerable anxiety and work‑related stress. Evidence given at the inquest revealed a decline in her mental health throughout 2024, including repeated medical consultations.

It’s tragic when deaths like this occur, and she should have had more help, but sadly, mental health can be a touchy subject, especially for close family members. However, saying that she tried getting help, but was let down by the NHS, and we encounter this all the time with people who try to get help but are failed at every turn, so this isn’t just a personal tragedy, it’s a systemic one.

Situations like this expose the gaps that people come across, and there is a lack of professional accountability, the lack of joined-up safeguarding, and vulnerable people are frequently left to navigate impossible systems unaided.

Whoever was responsible for this complete and utter screw up clearly had no compassion for this lady or her family, and clearly human life was not the issue here, cost was, but these are real people with real lives, real grief and futures that are altered forever, not just for the person who died, but for their families as well – that suffering will live with them forever, but for those who stood by and did nothing, well, I hope they sleep soundly in their beds at night – of course they will because as long as it’s not happening to them or their families, it’s not happening at all!