Bradford, UK: A teenager bled to death after getting his arm stuck in a charity clothes bin, an inquest heard.

Brendan McBride, 19, was found hanging by his arm from the hatch of a Save The Mothers Trust bin.

His family believes the teen may have been trying to find somewhere to sleep by standing on a plastic container to reach into the large metal bin but slipped and trapped his arm, leaving him suspended.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

His mum, Miss Paula Denison, 44, said after the hearing: “I thought I heard knocking at the back door at about midnight, a neighbour said they heard something too but I didn’t answer the door.

“Now I’m worried it could have been him. I’ll have to live with that guilt.”

The inquest heard how the charity bin hatch in Great Horton, Bradford, West Yorks., had caused a significant arm injury resulting in significant blood loss.

His mum said she was struggling to accept her son would never walk through the door again.

Miss Denison, who has four other children, said the police broke the news to her after finding her Bradford address in his pocket.

She believes her son, who had been staying at various addresses, might have been trying to find shelter for the night.

Talking about her heartbreak, she said: “I’ve been on the couch downstairs, I’m fighting sleep - I think I need to be awake if he comes to the door but of course he won’t. I just don’t want it to be true.

“He had a home here, he could have a bed, a meal, a bath when he wanted. He’d spend a couple of nights a week here maybe, then at his dad’s or his friends.

“I don’t know why he would have been trying to get into the bin that night, he could have been looking for somewhere to sleep. I really don’t know and maybe I never will.”

Assistant Bradford Coroner Dr Dominic Bell was told Mr McBride had been drinking the night before he was found at 9.30am on Friday, May 23rd by a member of the public walking to work.

Miss Denison said her son had started drinking too much after losing a job he loved at a car breakers’ yard.

She said: “We all told him to lay off the drink - we were worried about him.

“When he was working he loved being busy, he’d only ever have a can or two but then when the job went it all changed, everything started going down and he drank too much.

“You expect to see your children grow and live their lives, you think you’ll go first - we are all heartbroken.

“All we wanted for him was to enjoy his life, get another job and to be happy. He was always loving and he knew he was loved. Family was important to him. 

“We will miss him a lot. I don’t think I’ll be able to keep living here without him, there’s too many reminders.”

She added: “It was a freak accident that no one could have predicted and in the end no one could have stopped.”

Save The Mothers Trust, which supports the needs of vulnerable women across the world, passed on its condolences.

Project manager Mohammad Shahid said: “We have been saying prayers for the young man and his family.”

The inquest was opened on Tuesday and is to be resumed at a later date.

-Mirror