A teenage girl who was dumped by her 'controlling' boyfriend committed suicide by deliberately stepping into the path of traffic on a dark motorway, an inquest heard.
Lena Begum, 18, had been wandering around the three lane carriageway for up to two hours during which she recorded a 3am voicemail message for Quzlam Ahmed saying: 'You will probably love me one day the way I loved you, but it will be too late.'
Minutes later the dental student was killed after walking in front of a van travelling at almost 60mph along the inside lane of the M65 near her home in Burnley, Lancashire.
The inquest heard that the driver, John Trainer, was unable to spot Lena until it was too late because the street lights on the motorway had been switched off by highway chiefs to cut costs.
Lena, who studied at Blackburn College, had met Mr Ahmed, known as 'Kammy', in October 2012, but he been 'controlling' and treating her 'poorly', it emerged at the hearing.
Her parents - from a traditional Bengali family - became concerned about the relationship and had reported Lena missing several times from the family home in Reedley.
After Mr Ahmed hit her on her 18th birthday and told her he had no longer wanted a relationship, Lena threatened to self-harm, claiming she was 'not afraid of dying' and that 'death held no fear for her'.
Lena’s friend, Taslena Alam, told the Burnley hearing how the teenager was 'mentally obsessed' and 'crazy' about Ahmed, and had even etched the name 'Kammy' into her arm.
SOURCE-DAILYM
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