Woman Commits Suicide Over ‘Bedroom Tax’

 

A woman who committed suicide left a note blaming the Government’s so-called bedroom tax for her death, Sky News reports.
Stephanie Bottrill, who killed herself earlier this month, wrote in her final letter: “I don’t [blame] anyone for my death expect [sic] the government.”
Her son Steven, 27, said she was struggling to cope after being told to pay £20-a-week extra for two under-occupied bedrooms at her home in Solihull.
He told the Sunday People: “I couldn’t believe it. She said not to blame ourselves, it was the Government and what they were doing that caused her to do it.
“She was fine before this bedroom tax. It was dreamt up in London, by people living in offices and big houses. They have no idea the effect it has on people like my mum.”
Ms Bottrill died 10 days ago. She was 53. In the days running up to her death she had told neighbours: “I can’t afford to live anymore.” Solihull Council Labour group leader, David Jamieson, who knows the family, said: “I’m absolutely appalled this poor lady has taken her own life because she was worried how she would pay the bedroom tax.