She believed she was on a mission to rescue good people

TEEN Victoria Halliday was found hanged in a wood after voices in her head told her she needed to complete a mission or commit suicide.

Medical professionals say she believed she had super powers. At one point she had to be rescued by police from the top of a sixstorey building.

She believed she was on a mission to rescue the “good people” from the top of the 140ft tall leisure complex.

Voices in her head told her she had to complete her mission or commit suicide.

Two weeks later, despite the continued intervention of mental health services, she was found hanging in a Leicestershire wood, an inquest was told.

Victoria, 19, from Broughton Astley, was discovered on July 30 last year.

She had a history of behavioural problems, the hearing at Leicester Town Hall was told.

She had spent two years in the care of Oakham House and Thornby Hall in Northamptonshire when she was younger.

But she had been living on her own in the community and holding down a job for a year before she sought help again in March 2015.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Beena Kumari from the Bradgate Unit in Glenfield said Victoria suffered from environmentally unstable personality disorder.

She said the teenager was not displaying psychosis despite hearing voices and suffering delusions.

Dr Kumari said repeated assessments showed the best treatment for Victoria would be in the community and that prolonged time in hospital would be counter productive.

She said: “There was a high risk of suicide. But it was a difficult balance.”

However, while the doctor was on holiday, Victoria’s condition deteriorated in the unit and she was detained under the Mental Health Act.

After six weeks improved and was charged.

But she went missing from home and two days later she was back in the unit. After a further assessment she was allowed home.

She was seen four times by staff at the mental health unit at Milton Keynes hospital after police were concerned for her safety.

Nurse Denise Harris of the Campbell Centre in the city said on the last occasion: “Victoria had climbed to the top of the six storey Xscape building in Milton Keynes.

“She said she was rescuing the good people from she dis- the bad people.”

Ms Harris said: “She was listening to the “leader” who told her to climb.”

She also had an imaginary friend called Grace who advised her about her mission.

Ms Harris said Victoria believed she had super powers and could climb anything without equipment.

Ms Harris said it was felt that Victoria was at risk and she was detained under the Mental Health Act.

She was taken back to the Bradgate Unit and assessed and it was felt she was lucid and calm and should be released.

The hearing was also told Victoria had been warned by police after climbing up the outside a building in Leicester.

Counsellor Janet Bagley, who was employed by the family to help Victoria, had eight sessions with her the last being on July 28.

Ms Bagley said Victoria had told her she had super powers and that there was a gang of them who could fly, breathe underwater or be invisible.

Ms Bagley said she found Victoria was unpredictable.

Sometimes she was calm and lucid, others she was anxious.

On June 23 Ms Harris rang the Bradgate Unit following a counselling session to tell of her concerns.

She said a psychiatrist rang her the next day and said Victoria was displaying “pseudo mania”.

Sarah Vince, solicitor for the Leicestershire Partnership Trust, said there were no records of the phone calls.