SUICIDE GIRL JUMPED TO DEATH AT HOSPITAL

The daughter of an aristocratic couple jumped to her death following
an eight-year descent into mental illness triggered by cannabis, it
has emerged.

Genevieve Butler, 28, the daughter of Lord and Lady Dunboyne, the
Anglo-Irish family, threw herself from a balcony at a London hospital
after breaking free from a nurse who was taking her for a cigarette
break.

Her parents told of how their "clever, bright and quick-witted"
daughter had been lost to them eight years ago when she was diagnosed
with drug-induced -paranoia after using cannabis.

They had noticed she was ill in her final year at Bristol university.
She was diagnosed with cannabis-related paranoia and bipolar disorder
and was sectioned several times.

Miss Butler was taken to Chelsea and Westminster hospital in April
last year after an overdose of paracetamol.

An inquest heard last week that she had been declared safe to go home
shortly before her death and had not been seen by a
psychiatrist.

Despite the fact that two other psychiatric patients had killed
themselves by jumping from the same spot -- on a fourth-floor walkway
at Chelsea and Westminster hospital -- the nurse accompanying Miss
Butler was not warned of the risk.

Having escaped the nurse momentarily, Miss Butler clambered over the
railing, looking back only to say "Goodbye". She fell four floors and
landed in the public gallery, in front of visitors, patients and
staff.

The coroner recorded a narrative verdict at Westminster Coroners'
Court.

Her parents were critical of the care she received during an
eight-month stay at Gordon Hospital in Victoria, central London, in
2004. They have "files and files" of the complaints they made.

They said their daughter had an idyllic childhood in Rotherfield,
East Sussex.

Lady Dunboyne said: "In a way we had been mourning the Genevieve we
knew for about eight years."