The parents of a teenage girl have spoken of
their anguish after she hanged herself over
fears of telling them she was gay. In the
months before her death, Elisabeth Lowe, 14,
known as Lizzie, had confided to pals that she
thought she might be a lesbian, an inquest
heard, Uk Mirror Reports.
Her friends said she was scared of telling her
parents and had struggled to reconcile her
feelings with her strong Christian faith.
However, her father said her fears were
“misplaced” and that she would have received a
“wealth of love and acceptance.”
A friend at around 8:30pm on Wednesday,
September 10, which concluded by saying
“….stay strong. I am sorry”
The pal told her mum who in turn alerted
Lizzie’s parents and the police, sparking a
desperate search for her, the Manchester
Evening News reports.
She was eventually found hanged in the Millgate
Fields area of Fletcher Moss Park in Didsbury,
Manchester, at around 11:15pm.
Despite extended resuscitation attempts by
paramedics, Lizzie, of nearby Dalston Drive,
could not be saved and she was pronounced dead
shortly after midnight.
A post mortem examination concluded she died
from the effects of hanging and that she had
no drugs or alcohol in her body at the time of
her death.
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