Overview
- The West Sussex inquest, which opened Tuesday, recorded a provisional cause of hanging.
- Friends later told Amelia’s parents she had been targeted by bullies on Snapchat in the weeks before she died.
- Area coroner Joseph Turner described the circumstances as “unnatural” at the brief hearing.
- Sussex Police said they are reviewing wider circumstances and are not treating the death as suspicious, and the family said officers took her iPhone and iPad for examination.
- Proceedings were adjourned to a pre‑inquest review on June 17 with police, children’s services, education officials and family listed as interested parties.