Mom who jumped to her death in China left passwords to access suicide note on phone

A British mom who jumped 250 feet to her death from her new home in China left password details for her phone so cops could find a suicide note, a court hearing was told.

Gill Smith, 44, used a stool to clamber over waist-high safety panels on the balcony of the Shanghai high-rise she had only recently moved into with her husband and two sons, according to the Manchester Evening News.

After her plunge from the 38th floor last July, police found a note with passwords and instructions on how to access a suicide note in her draft email folder, the court in South Manchester in the United Kingdom was told.

“She had left the access codes to her phone so that somebody could look at the phone and the draft email on the phone,” police coroners officer Colin Price said, according to the report.

“The underlying theme of what she was saying was that she was sorry,” he told the court.

Smith had “never talked about doing anything like this before,” insisted her husband, Peter, who had been at lunch with their sons at the time of the fatal fall, the report said.

However, he said she had seemed troubled in the days before, struggling to get out of bed, and they had also recently discussed a spate of suicides in Shanghai.

“She just got herself into a hole and I don’t think she meant it,” he told the court, according to the Evening News. “I think it was just a moment of madness.”

Coroner Alison Mutch recorded the death as a suicide due to multiple injuries caused by her fall, the report says.

She noted that the mom appeared to have “a very happy life in China” and “cared immensely for her family.”