Minister’s daughter hanged herself

The eldest daughter of former Tory minister Cecil Parkinson hanged herself two days after she was discharged from a private psychiatric hospital, an inquest heard. Mary Parkinson, 57, was discovered hanging from the banister at her £900,000 Victorian terraced home in Ashbury Road, Battersea, by concerned neighbours on December 10 last year. She left a suicide note which read simply: ‘Thank you for loving me so much I had a great life until six months ago.’ Miss Parkinson was being…