Girl, 19, hanged herself at her family home (From Witney Gazette)

Girl, 19, hanged herself at her family home

9:00am Wednesday 20th September 2006 in Witney

A FATHER has told how he found his teenage daughter dead after she hanged herself at their family home.

Suzy King, 19, had returned to live with her family at Greens Road, in Eynsham, after breaking up with her boyfriend, an inquest heard last week.

The teenager, who had suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome for more than four years, and had been prescribed anti-depressants in the months before her death, had been admitted to hospital a a few weeks before, after taking an overdose.

Her father, Adrian King, told the inquest that he and his wife had adopted Miss King when she was eight, along with her two siblings.

He said that she had seemed all right on January 1, the night before her death.

He said: "She was arguing with her younger brother about who would have the remote control for the television.

"We knew Suzy was down and low, but she seemed to have picked up since she was home. She was safe."

The next morning, Mr King went to the room where Miss King had been sleeping. He said: "I went up there, and opened the door to wake her - and that was when I found her."

The family later found two notes from Miss King, dated the night before, one written to them and one to her ex-boyfriend.

Dr Ian Roberts, a consultant pathologist from the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, said that a toxicology report indicated that Miss King had not taken her anti-depressants for four or five days before her death.

Her GP, Dr Philippa Jackson, of Eynsham Medical Group, said in written evidence that she had seen Miss King on December 20, when the teenager had admitted that she had not taken the drugs for several weeks.

Oxfordshire coroner Dr Nicholas Gardiner, giving his verdict, said: "Suzy took her own life by hanging."