{"id":692469,"date":"2026-01-13T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:30:12","slug":"salford-mum-found-dead-with-daughter-was-depressed-inquest-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692469\/","title":{"rendered":"Salford mum found dead with daughter was depressed, inquest hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsland, who met Karos when they were both studying at Salford University, told the hearing: &#8220;She just kind of lost herself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was concerned about her state of mind. I was concerned about Martina&#8217;s mental health, it seemed to be in rapid decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She made reference to me about feeling that her life was not worth living and made reference to suicide, which is why I contacted social services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think she would harm Eleni in any way. She absolutely loved her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said her friend was unable to work, and socialising became difficult because of the demands of caring for her child, with Marsland describing her friend as &#8220;very socially isolated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsland told the inquest she had alerted social services in December 2023 about her concerns for Karos&#8217;s mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A child protection plan was put in place by Salford City Council but Marsland said her friend did not feel &#8220;overly supported&#8221; and took it as a &#8220;punishment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsland said that although respite care was given to Eleni so her mother could have a break, the times when she was then available to socialise did not always coincide with that of her friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marsland, who met Karos when they were both studying at Salford University, told the hearing: &#8220;She just kind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-692469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115885914514909359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}