A “seemingly happy and successful” Wandsworth woman committed suicide after taking a cocktail of prescription drugs, an inquest heard on Tuesday.

Sarah Barker, of Santos Road, was found dead in her bedroom by her flatmate on Sunday May 10 this year.

Miss Barker, a brand manager for Johnson & Johnson, had recently been tasked with marketing a hayfever remedy and was allegedly organising a production party after successfully completing her first TV advert.

When a laptop belonging to the 34-year-old was searched by police it contained several notes suggesting she had been thinking about taking her own life, Westminster Coroner’s Court heard.

A post mortem into Miss Barker, who had researched how to commit suicide and had visited her GP in order to procure the relevant drugs to do so, revealed she took a lethal combination of drugs.

Dr Peter Wilkins, a pathologist, said the cocktail contained more than six times the recommended dose of each drug used.

Coroner Dr Paul Knapman, said: “Sarah Barker was a seemingly happy, successful and clever woman, who was doing well at work. Even Sarah’s flatmate had no idea about her inner-most thoughts which had clearly been set out for some time.

“She had been thinking about this for a while and was making preparations for taking an overdose of drugs with the intent of killing herself. It is a tragedy to die at only 34 but it is quite clear she killed herself with. I conclude Sarah Barker died from multiple drug ingestion.”

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