A SIXTEEN-year-old Isle of Wight girl found hanging in a neighbour's house died because her cry for help went tragically wrong, her grieving family said.
Pretty Eloise Williams - described by her distraught family as a brilliant girl and student - was found in the bathroom of her aunt's house by her fiance late on Sunday night.
Eloise was taken by ambulance to St Mary's Hospital where she was pronounced dead in the early hours of Monday morning.
Her grandparents said they were convinced her death was the result of her on-going battle against mental illness.
The teenager was studying for GCSE exams at her chalet home in Marsh Road, Gurnard, because she had been taken out of Cowes High School due to depression.
An inquest at Newport yesterday heard a post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be hanging. Island Coroner John Matthews adjourned the hearing to a date to be fixed.
Eloise lived with her grandparents Val and Paul, her father Andrew and her sister Sharni, 14, next door to the seafront house where she was found hanging.
Grandmother Val Williams, 54, said: "She was such a beautiful girl."
Paul Williams, 61, said: "She was a brilliant girl and a brilliant student. She was no more worried about her exams than any other teenager."
Mrs Williams said that Eloise had self-harmed in the past to get attention, but that she had recently promised that she would try to stop.
She said: "She was so looking forward to the future. She had just finished her three months probationary period working at Sainsbury's as a cashier and was hoping to be offered a permanent contract."
Mr Williams said that Eloise and her fiance, Marc Burton, of Newport, who is in his 20s, were saving to buy a flat. She had apparently been looking forward to working on Bank Holiday Monday as it would mean she could earn more.
The youngster did not lock the bathroom door and the family are convinced that this fact, along with her attention-seeking in the past, point to a tragic accident rather than a genuine suicide attempt.
Despite her depression her tutors expected that she would do well in her current exams and Eloise hoped to go into a career as a forensic pathologist.
Mr Williams said: "We will never know why she had these mood swings, she sometimes could not stop them."
He added that her father, Andrew, who currently needs dialysis three times a week to treat a kidney problem, was devastated by her death.
Eloise's cousin, Della Mason, paid tribute by writing a special prayer.
She wrote: "Dear Lord, thank you for Eloise, thank you for her life and love. Thank you that we were able to borrow a soul so beautiful, so precious, a light so bright.We now need to entrust her to your care and pass her gently from our hands to yours. We love her so. Amen."
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