A TEENAGER took his own life after falsely thinking he’d failed his maths GCSE.
The day after Alex Henshaw, 17, died his parents received an email saying his paper had been remarked and he had actually passed.
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Mum Lisa Hamilton, from Winchester, said in a statement: “He had been very distressed, he had just failed a GCSE maths paper.
“The re-mark came back as a pass, I got an email the next day.”
Alex, who had ADHD and autism, was studying a Btec in game design at Basingstoke College of Technology.
He was said to be doing so well on the course, his tutor believed he must have been cheating.
Winchester Coroner’s Court heard Lisa called the fire brigade on September 10 last year the morning as she couldn’t unlock Alex’s bedroom door, reports The Times.
His body was found inside.
The inquest was also told, on top of the exam Alex was worried about a presentation he had to do in front of his class.
The teenager, however, did not leave any kind of suicide note and coroner Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp said she “could not explain” what she described as an “impulsive act”.
She recorded a conclusion of suicide, adding his family could have done nothing to “prevent or predict” his death.
The coroner continued: “Alex had enormous challenges, he had a number of conditions both physical and of a neurological nature.
“These would have affected not just his physical health but his ability to make friends.
“It is a credit to him that he managed in a society that is not always as sympathetic as it could be.”
Mum-of-three Lisa described her son as “happy” and said he had plans to travel to Japan and was due to undertake work experience at a game design company.
She criticised the “underfunding” of the NHS and referred to the difficulty of getting specialist treatment for her children, who all have autism.
