A talented grammar school pupil believed to have jumped to her death on A-Level results day after she failed to get into her first choice university, an inquest heard on Tuesday. Harpreet Kaur Hallaith, 18, attended the prestigious Wolverhampton Girls’ High School but had started to get ‘stressed’ about her exams earlier this year.
The ‘high-achieving’ girl needed two A* grades and one A from her subjects in order to get a place studying Russian and history at Durham University.
But an inquest heard she was left disappointed after finding out she had got one A and two Bs in Russian, Latin and History on results day on August 18- enough to get into her second choice of Edinburgh University.
However Hallaith left her family home in Wightwick, Wolverhampton, a few hours later at about 2.30pm for a walk. Her worried parents Tersem, 48, and Avtar Hallaith, 50, reported her missing when she did not return hours later.
Police found some of Miss Hallaith’s possessions 11 miles away at the top of a beauty spot in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. The inquest heard Miss Hallaith wrote a letter confirming an ‘intention to take her life’ which was found next to her jacket and phone at the top of the beauty spot.It was a place Miss Hallaith liked to go to think. The following day police found the body.
