A MOTHER-OF-THREE gambling addict was facing eight charges for a range of offences at the time she killed herself, an inquest heard.

Coroner Ian Wade QC said the charges would have been “tempestuous” and “troubling” for Charleen Carson, who died by suicide at her home in Slough on January 2, 2021.

The 44-year-old made headlines in March 2016 when she was spared jail after conning a man she met on Craigslist out of £6,000.

According to MailOnline, Carson told her victim she was being held hostage by a fictitious loan shark who threatened to cut off her hand and begged him for money for her release after striking up a friendship with him online.

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But following a police investigation, she was handed a suspended sentence and told to pay back all the money to the man.

Mr Wade said Carson had had a “number of encounters with the criminal justice system” at the inquest into her death.

He revealed that the mother was facing eight impending prosecutions for dishonesty and assault matters and that she was next due in court in March 2021.

The coroner went on: “It looks as if Charlene had become rather tempestuous and troubled and no doubt these were matters that played on her mind the weeks before her passing.”

Reading Coroner’s Court heard how 44-year-old Carson had struggled with mental health and gambling issues for more than a decade and had previously tried to take her own life.

She was found by her partner on January 2, 2021, after desperate attempts to contact her were met with silence.

Coroner Ian Wade said it was apparent she had been dead for some time when she was discovered.

Police found a number of suicide notes after being called to her property, but an inquest heard that it could not be determined how recent they were.

One note read: “I can’t go on anymore. The future scares me.

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“I’m getting old. I can’t face it. It is painful on the body. I’m just not well.”

A friend of Carson’s who gave a statement as part of the inquest had suggested Carson had been “let down” by mental health services.

Carson had completed a 10-week group mental health course a month before she passed away, the inquest heard.

She had been closely monitored by a community mental health team for seven years from 2013 to 2020.

Carson reported feeling suicidal and anxious in the last two meetings she had with mental health chiefs before her death.

A review of her mental health was scheduled for January 7, five days after she died.

Judging the evidence, coroner Ian Wade said: “I don’t find any basis for misgivings or concerns there was anything preventable about this tragic death.”

Concluding the inquest, the coroner ruled Carson died by suicide.

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He said: “She was very seriously thinking about taking her own life.

“There was not anything anybody could have done, realistically.

“Charleen had determined that her time had come, that enough was enough.”

The inquest into Carson’s death was held at Reading Town Hall on Friday, January 7.