A WOMAN killed herself after being wrongly discharged from a mental hospital.

A coroner's jury heard that Fiona Gale, 29, of Sherston, near Malmesbury, was made a scapegoat for the bad behaviour at Green Lane hospital, Devizes, and was discharged despite threatening to throw herself under a train.

The former show-jumper was found dead on a railway line near her home the next day.

After the hearing, her mother, Barbara Gale, has accused doctors of "playing Russian roulette" with her daughter's life.

And Wiltshire coroner David Masters has recommended halfway houses for mental health patients to try and prevent tragedy happening again.

Fiona suffered from a borderline personality disorder which led to serious self-harming, drinking and drug-taking.

She was admitted to the hospital after her care co-ordinator decided her self-harming was becoming life-threatening.

But during the next two weeks in hospital her drinking and self-harming spiralled out of control.

She had sex with a patient and had got drunk during two evenings out.

The inquest heard that cannabis was found in a cupboard at the hospital.

In a statement, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust said: "We will be reflecting seriously on the verdict and the comments that have been made."

A suicide verdict was returned.