A coroner has described the suicide of an 18-year-old bio-medical science student as 'the most terrible and appalling tragedy' and 'such a waste of an extremely promising young life'.
Manchester City assistant coroner Fiona Borrill was speaking after delivering the conclusion of an inquest into the death of Molly Helen Gosling that she killed herself.
Molly, from Oldham, was found hanged in her University of Manchester student halls room at Aberdeen House on January 15, 2020.
Miss Borrill told the inquest: "It's not clear exactly when Molly carried out the act which ended her life.
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"But I am satisfied that the appropriate conclusion is one of suicide in that Molly carried out a deliberate act to end her own life. I do not consider that this was a cry for help.
"It's an appalling tragedy when someone such as Molly who had everything to live for ends their life in this particular way."
Miss Borrill said she had given consideration to the 'huge amount' of support that had been given to the student by the University of Manchester and the student mental health services when she was suffering from anxiety and depression.
She added: "It's just the most terrible and appalling tragedy and such a waste of an extremely promising young life."
In a statement read out at the inquest, Molly's mother Wendy Gosling described her educational background.
"Molly was always hard on herself with her grades," she said. "She had previously tried to take her own life. When she was 16 she took an overdose and she was taken to Oldham Royal Hospital and she was referred to child and adolescent mental health services."
Wendy said Molly also saw a counsellor, but took another overdose when she was 17 and threatened to do it again in the summer of 2019.
On the weekend before she died the inquest heard Wendy spoke to her daughter on the phone as she travelled home on the train after visiting a friend a Warwick University and seemed happy with had 'no concerns'.
