Teen model kills herself over cancelled date
Teen model kills herself over cancelled date
A teenage model in Wales, UK, killed herself under a train after a text from a boy cancelling a date at the cinema, an inquest heard Tuesday.Gabrielle Joseph, 16, told friends on Facebook: "I am going to kill myself tonight' after being upset when the date fell through."
Gabrielle was left distressed after receiving a message cancelling the date
The inquest heard she died just 75 minutes later from multiple injuries after she was hit by theMilford Haven to Cardiff train near her home on Easter Monday.
Gabrielle told friends on Facebook that she was upset that the boy had cancelled their trip to the cinema the following night.
Gabrielle, who was studying for her A-levels and lived with mother Julie, a hairdresser, and father Terry, was a model for Hollister.
Weeks before her death her portrait had been chosen as an image of the week by Digital Photographer magazine.
She wrote a three-page message on Facebook to her friends just before she died in April.
Coroner Philip Rogers gave copies of the message to the jury but he did not read it aloud.
He said: "The last part of the message is a clear indication on Gabby's part that she is going to take her own life."
Gabrielle was described as 'bubbly' and 'outgoing' with a busy life attending college along with two part-time jobs - including with one fashion retailer Hollister at its store in Cardiff.
She dreamed of being a top fashion model - and on her own modelling website, she wrote: "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."
But her father Terry described her as being "groggy and pale" on the day of her death near her home in B! riton Fe rry, South Wales.
A jury in Swansea returned a verdict of suicide.
A statement from her family after the inquest said they were "devastated by the loss of our precious Gabrielle".
Source: Daily Mail, UK
Published Dec 21 2011
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