A mother of four killed herself after she lost custody of her children when she was wrongly accused of having sex with an under age boy.

Sheila Griffin, 36, was acquitted following a trial by jury but during the two-year battle to clear her name her children had moved in with their father and she had to fight for contact, an inquest heard.

The support worker had battled depression for years and had attempted to take her own life four times in 2016 before she was found dead in bed by her grandmother having taken an overdose.

She had begged for help with her mental health problems, which had spiralled following the false accusations and the loss of custody of her four children.