Psychiatric ward was ‘incapable of dealing with suicidal teacher’

A teacher who was convinced if she ate she was nourishing the evil inside killed herself at a psychiatric unit after battling with a personality and eating disorder, an inquest heard. Rebecca Hursey, 39, consumed ground glass, aspirin, flour and oil to avoid feeding the demon before she died on May 4 last year. Ms Hursey, from Leicester, had been in a ‘relationship with death,’ since the age of four and her mental health troubles led her to put washing…