A 'devoted' university student took her own life after she was wrongly told she had failed her exams and could not progress to the third year of her course, an inquest heard.
Mared Foulkes, 21, from Anglesey, north Wales, died on July 8 after falling from the nearby Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait.
The Cardiff University student was in her second year studying pharmaceuticals, having worked part-time in a pharmacy for several years.
An inquest in Caernarfon today [Oct 28] was told Miss Foulkes had received an automated email from the university hours before her death saying that she had failed her re-sit exam and would not be moving on to third year.
One email stated that she had failed with a score of 39 per cent when in fact she had passed the exam with 62 per cent.
The 39 per cent related to a previous exam she had failed on March 26 and not the re-sit exam she had taken - and passed - on April 24.
Mared Foulkes (pictured), 21, from Anglesey, north Wales, died on July 8 after falling from the nearby Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait
Professor Mark Gumbleton, Head of School, told the inquest there were 'lessons always to be learned' following Miss Foulkes's death in relation to the 'confusing' way students receive their results.
Speaking during the inquest her mother, Iona Foulkes, said that she felt it was 'plain and simple' that her daughter's actions that day were a 'direct result' of receiving the email from Cardiff University.
Mrs Foulkes said: 'She received an automatic email - there was nothing personal - no phone call, nothing.
'She believed she had failed and the email said she could not progress with her degree.
'She was devoted to her course and to her work in the pharmacy, she would have been horrified.
'She would have felt like all her dreams and aspirations had finished with that sentence - for a 21-year-old it's unbelievable.'
The mother-of-two said she felt that the course tutor should have been in contact with Miss Foulkes directly regarding the results and believes parents of students should be made aware of when exam results are due.
When the Covid-19 pandemic started Miss Foulkes had been forced to complete her studies online.
The inquest heard how Miss Foulkes had gone to work at Rowlands Pharmacy in Caernarfon that morning having been for a run and had returned home to have dinner with her parents and brother at around 6pm.
She then told her mum she
