Mother of disabled woman who killed herself wins appeal for new inquest

Jodey Whiting of Stockton-on-Tees died in 2017 about two weeks after her disability benefit was stopped

The mother of Jodey Whiting, a seriously mentally ill and disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were wrongly cut off, has won an appeal for a fresh inquest into her daughter's death.

Whiting, from Stockton-on-Tees, took her own life in 2017, days after Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) officials stopped her benefits after she missed a fit-for-work test appointment.