BREAKING: The mother of Jodey Whiting, a housebound disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut, has won a Court of Appeal bid for a fresh inquest into her daughter’s death.
The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were cut has won a Court of Appeal bid for a fresh inquest into her daughter’s death.Her daughter Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, died in February 2017
The judge said the public has a ‘legitimate interest’ in knowing whether Ms Whiting’s death was connected with the abrupt stopping of her benefits. ‘The DWP’s actions and lack of action has now been described as shocking, yet the impact on Jodey and my belief that this caused her death has never been investigated and I want a second inquest to do that.’The coroner at the original inquest, which lasted 37 minutes, recorded a verdict of suicide.
He previously said: ‘The described the DWP’s errors, as reported by the independent case examiner, as “shocking”.
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