Grief-stricken sister's incredible act for tragic 22-year-old

Clutching her brother’s ashes in a heart-shaped urn, Charlene Marsden looked out over the rolling green hills and valleys below Snowdon.

It took her around seven hours to climb up and down Welsh mountain in total. But the 34-year-old says the gruelling challenge was worth it in memory of her brother, David Marsden.

David, a much-loved and popular lab worker at Stepping Hill hospital , was found dead at his family home in Stockport on November 21, 2019. He was just 22-years-old.

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His family say his mental health began to spiral when he started struggling with insomnia while on holiday in the summer of 2019. David, from Adswood, felt so anxious about his normal life ‘slipping away from him’ that he became severely unwell with episodes of depression, anxiety and insomnia.

He spent some time on a psychiatric ward at the hospital where he worked and had been allowed home on leave at the time of his death. It was later discovered he died as a result of toxicity produced by ingesting a chemical, which the Manchester Evening News has chosen not to name.

Last year, after posting on social media and receiving a flurry of messages from other people who had had similar experiences, Charlene and her mum Fiona Marsden decided to set up a local support group for those bereaved by suicide. The group, called Beautiful Minds, now holds monthly meetings for its members.

The group along with 120 student and staff members from Stockport Academy took part in the Mount Snowdon climb on September 17. So far, they have raised an incredible £9,000 for local mental health charities.

“It was tough,” Charlene told the Manchester Evening News . “I go