THE mother of a Worcester teenager who froze to death in a field has spoken about her daughter’s last days.

Liz Tyler said over the Christmas period last year her daughter Jade was acting strangely and kept wandering off in the middle of the night.

She eventually managed to get Jade seen by doctors at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, but as they left on Saturday, December 27, Jade disappeared.

“We were leaving the hospital, she was in front of me, I was putting my coat on because it was really cold, then we went out and she had gone, there was no sign of her,” said Mrs Tyler.

“I did not see her again.”

Her body was later found in a field off Pershore Lane on Thursday, January 8, by a woman surveying the land and a post-mortem discovered Jade died from hypothermia.

There was no evidence of drugs or alcohol in her system.

Speaking at Jade’s inquest today, Mrs Tyler, of Carnforth Drive, Worcester, said her 16-year-old daughter had not been living with her for several months.

“She did not get on with her younger sister and she always wanted to go out,” said Mrs Tyler.

“Instead of coming back at a reasonable time she would come back in the early hours of the morning which was making things difficult.

“I asked her to leave because she was not there half the time anyway so we thought it would make things easier for everybody.”

Jade initially lived with a friend but was later housed in different bed and breakfasts by Worcester City Council.

On Christmas Eve, Jade’s social worker called Mrs Tyler and asked if the teenager could stay with her over the Christmas period.

“I said yes but I told her she would not stay and I knew she would not,” said Mrs Tyler.

The social worker bought Jade to her sister Katie’s house and it was then Mrs Tyler realised something was wrong.

“She was acting very strange, she was full of energy and talking a lot of nonsense and scribbling on bits of paper,” she said.

Later that night Jade disappeared. “I woke up in the middle of the night and she had gone.

“I had been told before if she went missing I should call the police, so I did.

“On Christmas Day the police turned up and said they had found her in Avon Road and at the same time Jade came back.

“She was wearing checked trousers, a waist coat, a nighty, a fleece and a pair of slippers.

“We were all appalled by the state she was in, she was upset.

“The police officer said she would take her to the hospital to get checked out so they went.

“In the early hours of Boxing Day she came back to Katie’s house and they both came to my house.

“She was still very high so we rang Primary Care and got her an appointment at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, she was seen by a doctor and they did not seem to think there was much of a problem.”

Eventually a doctor called the psychiatry emergency services (PES) team to assess Jade.

“Two men from the mental health team and her social worker came and asked Jade what was wrong,” said Mrs Tyler.

“I expected to be interviewed to give them my point of view, I was not even asked.

“Then they said they had started the assessment but could not finish it because it was too late.”

Jade was told she needed a blood test, so she went to the accident and emergency department and waited until the early hours of the morning to be seen.

When Mrs Tyler was asked by the mental health team to have Jade for the night, she again warned them her daughter would not stay, but accepted it was the only option.

As they were all leaving the hospital, at 3.40am, Jade disappeared.

Mrs Tyler also told Worcestershire Coroner Geraint Williams her daughter had been diagnosed with a mood disorder and had been prescribed medication for it.

“She was supposed to be taking her medication every day,” she said.

“As far as I know, around Christmas time, possibly before, she had not been taking it.”

In recording a verdict of accidental death, Mr Williams concluded: "It seems to me that Jade was having mental health difficulties, that she was behaving strangely and that she ran away from the hospital.

"She was obviously very disturbed.

"Whatever was in her mind it led her to that field where she lay down and died from hypothermia."