A WOMAN ended up in intensive care after she attempted to take her own life with an overdose as she tried to get rid of her partner’s drugs stash.

Sadie Thundercliffe, aged 33, of All Saints Road, Worcester, admitted possession of class C drugs (diazepam) when she appeared before a district judge at the city’s magistrates court.

She was taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital on Wednesday, July 25, following an overdose and had to be taken to the intensive treatment ward.

Staff said she was anxious and discovered tablets addressed to both herself and her co-defendant, Ross Cooke, which they believed to be diazepam. She discharged herself, leaving the drugs at the hospital, where they were later seized by police.

When arrested she told officers she was in a two-year relationship with Ross Cooke, a diazepam addict, and had rowed with him over his use of the drug before overdosing.

Cooke, aged 33, of Bridge Street, Worcester, appeared at the court the same day facing a separate drugs charge.

Kerry Lovegrove, prosecuting, said: “She took the drugs from the flat before he got violent with her. “She subsequently kept them and stated she had taken some of the tablets in order to take an overdose because she didn’t want to live anymore.”

She told police she “suffers regular domestic violence from her partner and stated she was scared”. Police seized 721 tablets with a value of about £1 each.

Chris Hilton, defending, said: “This is a very sad case. Miss Thundercliffe is someone who suffers from low self-esteem and depression. She is on medication for that.”

He said when her partner took the drug he became “a different person” and she took the drug to avoid any repercussions.

He added: “Some of the tablets were flushed down the toilet there and then. She became agitated, not knowing what to do or how to dispose of the balance of the drugs.

“She took quite a quantity of those drugs as an overdose, aiming to self-harm because she wanted to kill herself.”

Mr Hilton said she later tried to self-harm using a sliver of glass which was the point the police arrived. She was again taken to hospital. Thundercliffe had struggled to come to terms with the death of her mother three-and-a-half years ago because she had been serving a custodial sentence at the time, feeling she was not there in her mother’s last days, he said.

District judge Nigel Cadbury adjourned the case until April 3 for Thundercliffe to be interviewed with a view to her receiving a community penalty involving supervision.