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A mum of two threw herself to her death after being tormented by toothache.

Janette Warburton was frustrated by medics failing to cure her chronic pain, her husband David has claimed.

An inquest found no gross failure in the 58-year-old doctors' receptionist's care, but David is convinced it stemmed from a cracked filling.

Janette suffered depression and severe anxiety from excruciating pain in her tooth dating back a year which spread to her temple - leaving her able to sleep only an hour a night.

She was admitted to two hospitals for treatment but ended up sending a string of text messages to her husband - one saying: ''It is what it is - the pain is unbearable.

"I haven’t slept all night. My body is shutting down. I am being transferred to the heart ward cos they need the bed.''

Ten days after being sent home from hospital, the grandmother, from Blackpool, Lancs, was due to attend a dental appointment to remove one of her teeth but instead climbed to the fifth storey of a nearby car park told a parking attendant who tried to stop her: ''I am going’' before jumping 50 feet to the ground. She died from multiple injuries.

Two notes written by Mrs Warburton were found at her home, including one talking about not wanting to live any more.

Now, after a coroner recorded a verdict of suicide, David has hit out at the healthcare his wife received in the run up to her death.

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Although it was suspected the pain stemmed from a cracked filling, he says doctors were unable to diagnose what exactly was wrong with Mrs Warburton and discharged her despite her husband's protests.

Factory worker Mr Warburton, 52, of Blackpool, Lancs, said: ''It seemed the NHS were short of beds, and now I am short of a wife. I was telling doctors how she felt – about the pain, the sleeping and the anxiety because of it.

"They said ‘go and see mental health,’ – why was that the first thing they offered her? Jeanette rightly said to me ‘I am not mental.’

''She was moved around loads and that was really upsetting for her. At one point she was moved to a cardiac ward though it was clear there were no issues with her heart and nobody believed she wasn’t sleeping.

"All they did was watch her and give her some medication – nothing that really found out what was wrong. When my wife walked out of the hospital she could barely stand and she was shaking all over.”

At an inquest in Blackpool, psychiatrist Gillian Strachan said Janette had received visits from the Lancashire Care Trust's crisis team, amid concerns about her mental health.

But she cancelled the visits following her discharge from hospital. She said while Mrs Warburton had been depressed she had denied having any intention of suicide.

Blackpool and Fylde coroner, Alan Wilson said there was no evidence of any ''gross failing'' in Mrs Warburton's care.

But her widower insisted: ''I really feel she has been let down by the NHS. She should not have been let out of hospital.

"She was clearly not ready to be sent home and a lack of beds and staff is no excuse. It seems she was picked on by the hospital to get rid of for a bed for someone else.

''Something needs to change so this never happens to anyone else’s wife, mother or child. Janette’s seven month old grandchild will never get to know her.

“My wife was a lovely, chatty bubbly person. She loved cycling, going on holiday, spending time with friends.

"She changed over the course of a few months so she was unrecognisable all because of a tooth and head ache which started a course of self-destruction.

'''She was a brilliant mum and fantastic wife. We have spent 30 years together and she is the love of my life and it is so hard to be without my best friend.

"She was the life and soul.”

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