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| Gaia Pope death: Teen's mental health a factor, inquest concludes | Gaia Pope death: Teen's mental health a factor, inquest concludes |
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| Gaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing in November 2017 | Gaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing in November 2017 |
| Teenager Gaia Pope's mental health and mental state probably caused or contributed to her death, an inquest jury has concluded. | Teenager Gaia Pope's mental health and mental state probably caused or contributed to her death, an inquest jury has concluded. |
| Miss Pope, 19, was found dead 11 days after going missing in Swanage, Dorset, in 2017. | Miss Pope, 19, was found dead 11 days after going missing in Swanage, Dorset, in 2017. |
| Her body was found in undergrowth near clifftops. A post-mortem examination revealed she died of hypothermia. | |
| At Dorset Coroner's Court, the jury returned a unanimous narrative conclusion. | |
| It also concluded that a failure to provide follow-up care after she was discharged from hospital weeks before she went missing may have contributed to her death. | |
| Miss Pope spent weeks in hospital in February and March 2017, where she was sexually harassed by a patient, after she was sectioned following a seizure and developing psychosis. | |
| Police searches were criticised by Miss Pope's family | |
| She was further assessed at Poole Hospital in the October but discharged and sent home without any community support. | |
| Miss Pope had died at some point between 15:59 GMT on 7 November 2017 and 10:00 on 8 November, the court heard. | |
| The jury concluded that her death was "probably caused by her mental health and mental state on November 7 2017". | |
| Her mother, Kim Pope, had tried reporting her daughter missing and her aunt called Dorset Police five times in the hours after she disappeared. | |
| She had left her aunt's home in Swanage at 15:40 on 7 November. | |
| But a formal missing person report was not logged by police until 18:15, the jury heard. | |
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