A MUM was found dead at home after her family noticed something unusual on Facebook. Katy Gough usually commented on photos of her daughter but was seemingly silent online in the run up to Christmas 2022. She left no message under a picture of the youngster after she met Santa Claus, which her relatives thought strange.
They grew increasingly concerned when they were unable to reach the 32-year-old by phone or text. In a panic, her mum Elaine Beech burst into her house in Royton, Greater Manchester , where she found Katy unresponsive on December 16. She had taken her own life.
READ MORE ON HEALTH Opening up about the tragic day and the "wake of devastation" that followed, she told Manchester Evening News : "We couldn’t get hold of her all day. "Her daughter was seeing Santa that day and we were waiting for her to comment on a photo of her meeting him [on Facebook], but no comment came. "We went round and broke in and found her.
"It just came as a complete shock. She kept it all to herself." Most read in Health Katy, who worked at Revolution on Deansgate Locks in Manchester, was known as the 'green diva' thanks to her love of the colour.
Friends said she wore it every day, and she was even buried in a green coffin. "Everywhere she went, she had green on," Elaine said. "Her nails were painted green, she dressed in green, everything she wanted to do was green.
"I have no idea where it came from, but all the accessories in her house were green." Katy was described as a "very fu.