Mum drove 100 miles to uni after not hearing from daughter and found her dead
A panicked mother who had been unable to contact her teenage daughter drove more than 100 miles to her university halls of residence to find her dead.
Charlotte Fox's mum discovered the student dead in her bedroom at the accommodation of University of Plymouth. Charlotte's inquest was opened yesterday and heard the teenager "hadn't been seen for a few days by other residents" in the heart of the city.
Beginning the inquest at Plymouth Coroner's Court, assistant coroner Sarah Le Fevre said there were no suspicious circumstances into Charlotte's death. The medical cause of death was ascertained as drug "toxicity" with a secondary cause of epilepsy.
The coroner told how Charlotte's mum drove the approximate 120 miles from the family home in Bristol to the university after becoming worried in March this year.
As PlymouthLive reports, Ms Le Fevre said: "Charlotte's mother couldn't make contact with Charlotte so drove from her home address in Bristol to Plymouth. She sadly located Charlotte deceased in her bedroom at the halls of residence." The teenager was a first-year student, the hearing was told. The hearing was adjourned and a full inquest will take place at a later date.
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Inquests do not investigate every single death that happens, but will hear unexplained or suspicious deaths of individuals. They will hear from witnesses from organisations, health services, as well as officers and police who investigated the incidents.
The law says said the coroner must open an inquest into a death if there is a reasonable cause to suspect that the death was due to anything other than natural causes.
An inquest is a limited fact-finding inquiry to establish:
- Who died
- When they died
- Where they died
- How they died
- Information needed by the Registrar of Deaths so the death can be registered.
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