A FAMILY has suffered a third heartbreak after a mother died from an accidental paracetamol overdose.

Speaking after an inquest into his wife’s death, Leigh Noble said Jacqueline had been his ‘rock’.

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He said she had stayed strong for him after her son died, and after he found her brother dead in the bath.

Mr Noble, 45, said: “She was just a lovely lady. She was everybody’s world.”

The couple, of Cutler Close, Stacksteads have five children and two grandchildren between them.

An inquest in Burnley heard Mr Noble found his wife dead in bed on July 1.

She had been taking paracetamol to help with chronic back and tooth pain and unintentionally overdosed on the drug.

East Lancashire coroner Richard Taylor reached a verdict of misadventure.

He said: “I make no criticism of her at all.

“She has inadvertently taken an overdose.

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“She had been taking one or two more paracetamol than she should have done.”

Speaking after the hearing, Mr Noble said he wanted to warn others of the dangers of taking paracetamol and the effect of the drug building up in the system.

He said: “If you take too much of it over a long period of time, paracetamol can kill.

“People don’t realise it’s a killer.

“I want people to know about it and stick to their prescriptions.”

Mrs Noble’s death came five weeks after she lost her brother, Michael, aged 49.

Mr Noble said: “He had a massive heart attack in the bath.

“Three days later Jackie went to change his tablets and couldn’t get in.

“I went up and got in and he was in the bath dead.

“Jackie got me through. She did everything, absolutely everything. She was brilliant.

“She had a lot to deal with but she dealt with it all with dignity and strength.

“My kids have been through so much, it’s just heartbreaking.

“She was my rock and she was my world. She held the family together.”

Back in 2009, Mrs Noble’s son, Andrew Loveday, 26, was found dead with a potentially fatal amount of heroin in his body, his inquest was told.

Mr and Mrs Noble were unhappy with the misadventure verdict recorded at an inquest the following year, as Andrew was not a regular heroin user, they said.

Two people were each sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in jail over his death, for a charge of concealing a corpse.

The court heard the pair, who knew Mr Loveday, had ‘panicked’ after waking up to find he had died apparently of a heroin overdose.

His body was found dumped in woodland by a dog walker.