A mental health patient left a suicide note pleading for her parents to ensure she received "justice" after alleging she was sexually abused by a nurse, a coroner heard yesterday.
Christchurch woman Tineke May Foley, 33, had a long history of mental health issues and was suffering schizoaffective disorder and possibly Asperger's syndrome when she died at her parents' South Brighton home in March 2010, Coroner Richard McElrea was told today.
He formally ruled her death was intentionally self-inflicted five months after police dropped their investigation into her complaint she had been sexually abused while an inpatient at the Seager Clinic at The Princess Margaret Hospital.
Detectives who worked on the case were reprimanded in a stinging Independent Police Conduct Authority report that found they failed to fully investigate her claims.
Coroner McElrea suppressed the name of the nurse and reserved his findings on medical opinion as to Ms Foley's mental state at the time of her death.