A 13- year-old school girl, Ellie Phillips, who committed suicide, reportedly wrote about her funeral before taking her own life.
The schoolgirl was said to have suffered self-image, friendship issues and had always researched suicide methods online before killing herself.
Her mother Michelle said that Ellie was “addicted to her iPhone” and she had threatened to confiscate it and her iPad because of her daughter’s attitude.
She said her daughter was a private person who was quite negative and very argumentative, always wanting the last word.
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Her mother said during the last summer holidays she spent a lot of time on her own and wouldn’t talk to anybody.
Her stepfather, Stuart Ley said the deceased was not very naughty but argumentative.
He said she would not confide in him and was guarded because he “wasn’t her real dad’ who had moved away to Truro, Cornwall, when her parents’ marriage ended.
He said Ellie did not have many friends and was “socially isolated” after being left out which left her feeling moody.
The day before her death she had captained her school hockey team to their best result in a tournament and Ellie was player of the tournament.
She also represented Cornwall at hockey.
On the day she died she “talked about people who she did not like” before going to a pond area to do her homework at their dairy farm at Sutcombe, North Devon.
She did not try and conceal herself as she played loud music before she hanged herself.
Her mum found her and tried to revive her but she died in North Devon hospital.
A post-mortem concluded she died from hanging.
During the course of the investigation by detectives, they found some messages on her iPhone notes which revealed “a reference to her funeral, depression, self-harm, stress, anxiety and self-image concerns”.
The detective said there were internet searches about methods of suicide.
Her English teacher Frances Lovett counselled Ellie regularly and said she was “a bright and bubbly character” who had petty squabbles and falling outs with other girls but “nothing out of the ordinary and nothing I would call bullying”.
(MIRROR)
