Girl, 16, found dead at boarding school 'hanged herself in a changing room', ... trends now

Girl, 16, found dead at boarding school 'hanged herself in a changing room', ... trends now
Girl, 16, found dead at boarding school 'hanged herself in a changing room', ... trends now

Girl, 16, found dead at boarding school 'hanged herself in a changing room', ... trends now

An inquest has opened into the death of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who was found dead at a top boarding school just weeks before her GCSE exams.

Caitlyn Scott-Lee, a student in year 11, was found dead in the upstairs changing room at £44,000-a-year Wycombe Abbey School on April 21, the day before she was due to have her first-ever detention.

At Beaconsfield Coroner's Court on April 26, coroner's officer Annabelle West said the provisional cause of death given at a post-mortem was hanging, Bucks Free Press reported.

The the full inquest is scheduled to take place on September 14.

A tribute to Caitlyn described her as 'gifted with autism' and 'had a particular passion for the theatre, arts, music and the environment'.

Caitlyn Scott-Lee, 16, was found dead in at Wycombe Abbey School on April 21

Caitlyn Scott-Lee, 16, was found dead in at Wycombe Abbey School on April 21

Caitlyn died the day before she was due to have her first-ever detention at Wycombe Abbey School (pictured)

Caitlyn died the day before she was due to have her first-ever detention at Wycombe Abbey School (pictured)

Her parents, banker Jonathan Scott-Lee and his accountant wife Tara, said: 'The school community, friends and family are grieving her loss but we are comforted in her personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

'Caitlyn enjoyed nature, the environment, sustainability and birds. She would have appreciated potted plants over cut flowers, and support for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.'

Her father also revealed that his daughter made a heartbreaking final diary entry in which she thanked her friends for their love, wished them luck and said goodbye.

In the final note, seen by The Sunday Times, Caitlyn described how she had run away from a school trip to Eton College as a 'cry out for help'.

Written the night before her death, it reportedly read: 'I hope this is my last diary entry. I want to kill myself tomorrow.'

Caitlyn's last journal entry, written in neat cursive, highlights how the detention had

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