BBC child star Imogen Moorsom died after being rejected from four schools

BBC kid prima Imogen Moorsom died by termination aged 20 aft being rejected from 4 aesculapian schools, an inquest has heard.

Gifted French horn subordinate Moorsom, from Bournemouth, qualified for the finals of BBC’s Young Musician of the Year successful 2022 and was portion of the National Youth Orchestra.

An aspiring doctor, Moorsom applied for aesculapian schools but was unsuccessful and alternatively won a spot to survey earthy sciences astatine Lancaster University.

However, her psychiatrist Dr Tessa Jones told the inquest that she ‘struggled to unrecorded up to her precise precocious standards’ and had ‘not been capable to judge her nonaccomplishment to get into aesculapian school’.

Her intelligence wellness spiralled aft a household vacation successful August and she was recovered dormant aboriginal that period earlier she was owed to determination to Lancashire for university, the Daily Mail reports.

Moorsom was recovered dormant by her parent Rosemary Moorsom successful the greeting of August 12 successful her chamber astatine their household location successful Milton Abbas, Dorset.

She said successful a connection astatine the inquest: ‘On August 12 I woke up astatine astir 8am. Imogen went up to furniture astatine astir 11:30pm the nighttime earlier and this was the past clip I saw her.

‘I went into her country astatine astir 11:40am to fto the feline successful and I thought she was sleeping in. I saw her bedside airy was connected which was odd.

‘I went implicit to her to region the ligature but did not commencement immoderate CPR due to the fact that she was acold to the interaction due to the fact that it was wide she had passed away.’

Moorsom was pronounced dormant astatine the country and her origin of decease was strangulation.

An inquest heard Moorsom received attraction for intelligence wellness problems which started during the Covid lockdown.

In 2022, she started assemblage successful London but dropped retired successful her archetypal twelvemonth owed to her mediocre intelligence health.

After returning home, Moorsom volunteered astatine the Dorset NHS Foundation Trust and applied for aesculapian schools.

The rejections caused her intelligence wellness to diminution and she was subsequently treated astatine The Priory Hospital, Southampton, the inquest heard.

After receiving specializer care, Moorsom was discharged and went connected a household vacation to bluish England.

When the household returned, she had further meetings with her psychiatrists.

In a connection work by Dorset’s adjunct coroner Richard Middleton, Moorsom was described by her parent arsenic a ‘talented instrumentalist and chorister.’

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