Pippa McManus died at Gatley railway station in Stockport, in December 2015
She stepped in front of a train after a family dispute over her excessive gym use
Problems started when she was 12 with her condition leading her to self-harm
The parents of an anorexic schoolgirl who stepped in front of a train five days after being released from a top psychiatric unit said last night that their daughter was failed by authorities 'from beginning to end'. Pippa McManus, 15, who weighed as little as four stone, committed suicide after a family argument about her excessive gym use ended with her running out of the house shouting: 'I am going to kill myself.' Her body was later found near a local railway station. The girl's parents, Marie and James McManus, had expressed reservations about her release from the private Priory clinic, where her treatment was being funded by NHS England, but felt they were 'left with no choice', they told an inquest in Stockport.
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