14-year-old schoolgirl hanged herself because she was scared of failing at school!

A tormented 14-year-old schoolgirl, who 'hated being a teenager' killed herself because she was scared of failing at school.

Tragic Courtney Gwynn, who wanted to become an actress, was an 'anxious' but 'very bright' girl who was terrified she would get poor grades.

The teen, of Carharrack, near Redruth, Cornwall, had become so concerned that, in the days before her death, she had Googled the phrase 'failing at school'.

Police also found evidence that she had later also searched the internet for way of ending her life.

She left a note telling friends not to be sad if they saw her on television or in the newspapers, adding: 'I just want to end my life.'

Cornwall coroner Dr Emma Carlyon ruled out that it was a cry for help, telling Courtney's tearful family that she had made ‘dark writings about how hard growing up was at this time’ and the ‘social pressures on her’.

The coroner said poems and writings in books were found in her bedroom as well as internet research into suicide in the hours before she died.

Dr Carlyon told the family: 'No one could have seen this coming'.

Courtney, who was found dead by her mother, did not suffer any mental illness but there was evidence she worried about failing at school, the coroner ruled.

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