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A campaigner for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire killed herself after writing a note saying the disaster had wrecked her life, an inquest heard.

Amanda Beckles, 51, was found dead in her bedroom by police called to her flat in St Anns Road, Notting Hill, about 900ft from the tower block.

Westminster coroner’s court heard Ms Beckles sought therapy after witnessing the 2017 fire in which 72 people died.

She had frequently expressed anxieties about her mental and financial state and displayed symptoms of PTSD.

Pc Gavin Harwood, who went to Ms Beckles’s home on 13 December last year, said neighbours were evacuated after he forced entry to the flat and found a warning note on her bedroom door.

Police Sergeant Mark Steadman told the court: “I have declared the death not suspicious. The deceased was found behind locked doors.”

Ms Beckles was the founder and co-ordinator of the Grenfell Tower Community Monitoring Project. Elizabeth Abrahams, an outreach worker who attended the Grenfell Inquiry with Ms Beckles, said: “She advocated on behalf of so many people in the community. She found the nature of the inquiry so traumatic — we needed to support her.”

Following Ms Beckles’s death police found two notes. One said: “The Grenfell Tower fire has affected me badly ... I really don’t know why it has affected me so badly but it isn’t a life worth living.”

A post-mortem gave the cause of death as asphyxia. Dr Wilcox said: “It is intensely sad. The Grenfell fire decimated a community and it has hit the most vulnerable hardest.”