Overview
- At a March 10 hearing at Preston Coroner’s Court, the coroner concluded the 19-year-old’s November death was drug-related.
- Toxicology showed fatal levels of morphine, and a clinical scientist’s assessment indicated the substance taken was likely heroin.
- Police said a metal spoon taped to her desk and a bottle of lemon juice were found in her room, items detectives described as consistent with heroin use.
- Braithwaite was discovered unresponsive in her Bowland College accommodation on November 20 after boyfriend Tom Dingle raised the alarm; she was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The inquest heard she had experienced post-traumatic stress after an incident in Abu Dhabi the previous year, and separate reporting notes Dingle was found dead on December 25 following a missing-person search, with his final inquest set for April 9.