Nursery worker leaps to death after developing narcolepsy ‘linked to swine flu jab’
Katie Clack, 23, suffered depression triggered by narcolepsy
A NURSERY worker jumped off a multi-story after developing narcolepsy when she was given the swine flu jab, an inquest heard.
Katie Clack, 23, threw herself off the 11th story of a shopping centre car park following depression triggered by her narcolepsy, which made her sleep 19 hours a day.
An inquest heard she contracted the condition after receiving the Pandemrix, aged 18, during the 2009-10 national vaccination against swine flu.
By the time she was diagnosed a year later she had fallen into chronic depression with "no quality of life," the hearing in Stamford, Lincs., was told.
She left her family a note urging them to pursue her legal case against GlaxoSmithKline, the firm that manufactured the swine flu drug.
Describing the moment Miss Clack fell, witness Gemma Wilson said: "All of a sudden there was a moving figure out of the corner of my eye.
"A second later there was a terrible noise like a loud bang and a person lying in the road.
"I realised then a person had fallen from the car park."
Miss Clack leaped to her death in Peterborough, Cambs, on September 23, 2014.
The nursery nurse landed feet first and died from traumatic head injuries at the scene, South Lincolnshire coroners' court heard.
During her depression she had gained around eight stone in weight, caused her to have problems at work and stop washing herself.
The psychosis led her to lead voices, including a woman called Daisy, who told her to kill herself.
Dr Gemma Hendry is a clinical psychologist who saw Miss Clack at 11am the day before she died.
She said: "There was no suspicions raised with me. She had plans for later in that week."
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The inquest heard Miss Clack, who had been sectioned in the past, had previously admitted having suicidal thoughts.
She had visited the car park on two occasions but was persuaded not to jump.
She also claimed to have previously taken an overdose.
All her mental problems came after the swine flu jab and the subsequent narcolepsy, the inquest heard.
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