THE grieving mother of a teenager found dead in a Blackpool house says she wants police to launch a murder inquiry into her daughter's mysterious death.

The body of Naomi Essery, 18, was found in the home she shared with her boyfriend last November.

Lancashire Police treated the death as suicide, as Naomi was surrounded by pill packets and had been drinking wine.

However, an inquest in Blackpool recorded an open verdict last month after hearing conflicting accounts of how she died.

Naomi's mother, Debbie, has said this week that she wanted the police to re-open the case and investigate the possibility that someone else took her daughter's life.

"I just find the whole thing really suspicious," said Debbie: "It's a horrible to contemplate but I can't help but think that someone else could have had a hand in my daughter's death."

The family is planning to appoint a solicitor to examine how Naomi died.

She had returned from a weekend at the family home in Stafford and had, according to her mother, been planning to return home permanently the following weekend.

Despite being surrounded by paracetamol packets, there was no trace of the drug in her stomach. She was believed to have mixed the drug with wine, a drink which, according to her mother, Naomi 'hated.'

She also wants to know why the emergency services were not called until almost 45 minutes after the body was found.

"Nothing makes sense," added Debbie: "Naomi didn't phone me or any of her friends to say she was unhappy and the coroner said it didn't appear as if she had committed suicide."

A Blackpool Police spokesman said officers had no evidence of any suspicious circumstances and no current plans to re-open an investigation, but that officers will liaise with the coroner over Naomi's case.