A WOMAN killed herself with a drug overdose a year after she had a sex change operation, an inquest heard.

Kali Bomar, 41, who was born as a male, had been very pleased with the operation, but was upset at being unable to find a job or a boyfriend.

Her mother, Daphne Collinson, told North Yorkshire East Coroner Michael Oakley she had two long conversations with her daughter in the early hours, shortly before she died on December 18.

She said: "She was very upset. She told me she had been arrested, but she hadn't. She said she couldn't face the future without her boyfriend, David."

She said Ms Bomar, of Bagdale Court, Whitby, had told her: "I might as well be dead. I can't get work or a partner."

But Mrs Collinson added: "She had talked like that in the past."

She had subsequently tried to ring her daughter, who had tried to commit suicide some years previously, but became concerned when the telephone line was constantly engaged.

When she went to Ms Bomar's home she found her collapsed on the floor with several empty tablet bottles nearby. Notes were found near the body, the Scarborough inquest was told.

Giving evidence, David Jackson told the inquest said he and Ms Bomar had remained friends and had been to Middlesbrough the day before she died.

He said: "She was a little distant. She hated being on her own, especially at night, but she said there was no specific reason."

Later, they went with a friend to Mr Jackson's sister's home in Whitby.

Asked by the coroner whether her gender assignment operation had affected her, Mr Jackson said: "It didn't cause her any anxiety."

PC Jonathan Webb said police had been called to the house, in St Peter's Road, after complaints of a disturbance.

Officers found Ms Bomar outside in a distressed state. She had been banging on the door and shouting.

PC Webb said Ms Bomar had been drinking, but was not drunk."I warned her she might be arrested if she continued to do it," he said.

The officer, who said he had no concerns Ms Bomar would take her own life, then took her back to her home.

Recording a verdict that Ms Bomar killed herself, Mr Oakley said "It is clear she was upset and appears to have fallen out with Mr Jackson.

"She was not intoxicated to any great extent and had not indicated she might harm herself, but it is clear she had taken a large amount of tablets and, having see the notes she left, I am satisfied she killed herself."