A grieving father whose daughter took her own life has blamed River Island for her plummeting mental health - after the way she was treated following a workplace injury.

Katie French, who worked as a window dresser at the fashion firm, felt let down by staff after suffering a prolapsed disc through lifting heavy items at work, her family claims.

Three years after leaving the firm in 2018, the 35-year-old took her own life at her parent's house in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, having fallen into a 'very dark place'.

Her heartbroken father Peter French, 73, is fighting for answers after an inquest into her suicide failed to make any findings of culpability against River Island.

The father told MailOnline: 'She was in such a bad place she couldn't cope.