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A young woman who had ‘delusional beliefs’ and ‘hallucinations’ was released from mental health care in the months before her death despite ‘only speaking to staff by text’.

Emily Whittaker, from Salford , was just 21 when her body was found at a canal close to Hannover Street in Audenshaw on July 20, 2024.

An inquest at Bolton Coroner’s Court heard how Emily, who was diagnosed with ADHD and autism, may have been suffering from psychosis or ‘emotional unstable disorder’ which she hid from mental health workers.

The court heard how the former Eccles College student believed she was mixed race, ‘Cuban and Mexican’, despite her being of White and Irish descent, and hid her toiletries as she believed that her skin was being bleached against her will.

Emily, who was sec

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