A
glamorous 28-year-old businesswoman killed herself because she struggled
to cope with living alone in Britain with her family dispersed across
the world, an inquest heard yesterday [Dec. 5].
Sales manager Sharon Bukokhe, of Levenshulme, Manchester, was a high
achiever working for a family planning charity but felt lonely because
relatives including her husband lived abroad.
Mrs Bukokhe, who was originally from Kenya, used her laptop to research
ways to commit suicide, applied full make up and painted her nails then
suffocated herself at her flat in April.
A diary found after her death said:
‘I think that any life is as valid as the next, such that an
ending of 25 is as good as 88. I have no real regrets or fears any more,
I just feel decisive and justified.’
Mrs Bukokhe, who appeared to friends to be ‘the happiest person in the
world’, settled in the UK in 2002 and graduated in design and
engineering at Nottingham Trent University, the inquest heard.
She was later appointed sales manager of a charity helping with family
planning issues involving third world countries. But Mrs Bukokhe was
deeply affected by her family living in other countries.
Her husband lived in South Africa so he could complete a Master’s Degree
whilst her mother lived in Richmond, Virginia, in the US, and her
sister lived in Canada.
Her only relative in Britain was her brother who lived 250 miles away in
Gillingham, Kent and as a result of her feelings of loneliness she was
diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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