Channel 4 executive who died was ‘bullied by her bosses’

UK: A high-flying Channel 4 executive overdosed on drugs after she was ‘systematically bullied’ by her bosses, a coroner heard yesterday.

Sarah Mulvey's father says she had been suffering from stress because of ‘unpredictable and aggressive’ working situation.

TV executive, 34, made programmes such as Ten Years Younger - Brat Camp and How To Look Good. Sarah Mulvey was found dead by her boyfriend at their north London home after she had taken a drug overdose

After difficulties at work she sought treatment at the £10,000-per-week Causeway retreat.

But the Oxford graduate went into a severe decline at the clinic in Osea Island, Essex, used by stars such as Amy Winehouse. It is believed that while staying there she obtained the drugs she later used to kill herself.

Sarah's boyfriend Mark Gillett discovered her dead in their £350,000 two-bedroom rented flat in Hampstead, North London, in January last year after she had taken an overdose.

When asked why she had gone to the Causeway Rehab, her father, Dr Mulvey, a mathematician at Sussex University, replied: ‘She had been systematically bullied by her bosses at Channel 4.’

Dr Mulvey said Sarah had been suffering from stress since early 2008 as a result of the ‘unpredictable and aggressive working situation’ she experienced at Channel 4. Daily Mail