A heart defect which led to the death of a mother could have been identified if she had been given a different hospital scan, an inquest has heard. Much loved Charlotte Roscoe, 26, died on January 24 at her home in Bradford Road, Farnworth just a day after being discharged from Royal Bolton Hospital, after being admitted with chest pains. Medics diagnosed her with a viral infection after she was admitted to hospital on January 22, where she spent the night.
Her father found her unresponsive in her bedroom and she was pronounced dead by paramedics. On August 1, an inquest into her death was held at Bolton Coroners Court. Her mother, Jayne Roscoe, told the hearing that her daughter grew up in Little Hulton before moving to Farnworth at 16-years old.
She attended St George’s RC High School in Walkden, studied at Bolton College and achieved a First Class degree at the University of Bolton. She lived with her parents for most of her life, besides some time in Chorley when she lived with a partner and had a child. Charlotte’s mother described her as being “quite shy”, an “old fashioned girl” and someone who “liked her privacy”.
She was interested in arts and crafts, computer design modelling, computer games and had a passion for mysteries, even being in the midst of writing a novel with a friend. Charlotte suffered with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), a disorder which decreases the number of platelets in the blood. On January 22, Charlotte complained to her m.