An inquest has opened into the death of a High Wycombe student.

Caitlyn Scott-Lee was found dead in the upstairs changing room at Wycombe Abbey School on Friday, April 21 at 9.45pm.

Thames Valley Police initially released a statement that Caitlyn Scott-Lee's body was discovered in a wooded area near the playing fields.

She was a student in Year 11.

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At Beaconsfield Coroner’s Court on Wednesday, April 26, coroner’s officer Annabelle West said the provisional cause of death given at a post-mortem was hanging.

The court heard how the school carried out an 'extensive search' to find Caitlyn as she was  not in the boarding house by 9.30pm.

The full inquest takes place on September 14.

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