Teacher kills herself at village primary school A headteacher is believed to have committed suicide by hanging herself in her office at a village primary school during a staff training day. The body of Helen Mann, a 43-year-old mother of two, was found by a work colleague at Sytchampton Endowed First School in Worcestershire on Monday afternoon. Ms Mann, who was pronounced dead at the scene, had been in her job just six months. Ms Mann's father-in-law, Kenneth Mann, told the local newspaper that the police are interviewing her husband, Philip Mann, 48, about why she may have killed herself. Phil is out talking to the police at the moment but we are all devastated. It has come completely out of the blue, we would never have expected anything like this," he told the Worcester News. We understand she took her own life. There were no children at the school at the time of her death, thought to have been at 4:20pm, and the Sytchampton Endowed will remain closed while investigations continue. The school, which has 109 pupils aged between five and nine years old, reportedly informed parents about the news of what it called a "serious incident" via text message. The school's chairwoman of governors, Stephanie Gait, said in a statement: "It is with great sadness that we confirm the passing of our head teacher, Helen Mann.