A YOUNG advertising and marketing graduate tragically plunged to her loss of life from a cliff after an evening out, a court docket heard.
Megan Thornton, 23, had solely been on the seafront property for a short time when she was informed she couldn't keep the evening as 15 relations have been already sleeping within the cottage.
Megan was high-quality about that and walked into the again backyard which was simply 30 toes from the cliff edge overlooking Widemouth Bay, Cornwall.
An inquest heard photo voltaic lights indicated the cliff edge, however the lights weren't on that evening within the pitch black of evening.
There was no fencing to guard folks from excessive cliff edge as a result of coastal erosion rips the fencing down.
Tragically Megan - who was aiming to stroll house - took just a few steps and plunged to her loss of life over the cliff.
The gifted 23-year-old had graduated with a level from Cardiff College after which a Masters diploma at Exeter College in advertising and marketing.
She achieved such a excessive degree of educational success that Exeter College Enterprise College bestowed upon her a world class scholarship, on an evening out in Bude, Cornwall, with mates.
Megan met up with a bunch of strangers who have been staying on the previous cottage.
She joined Charlie Pengilly, who she met that evening and who was staying on the cottage with relations, and so they took a cab to the property.
However she couldn't keep over as there have been already 15 folks sleeping there and left through the again door.
Charlie mentioned he tried to name a cab however it appears Megan had set her thoughts to strolling again to the place she was staying.
However within the pitch black in a property she didn't know, she took two steps and plunged down the sheer cliff and landed on rocks on the seashore under.
Charlie raised the alarm and home visitor Alice Rogers, who's a GP apply nurse, ran right down to the seashore at 2am and gave unconscious Megan life assist till paramedics arrived earlier than she sadly died.
Charlie mentioned: "She was a beautiful woman. I used to be simply making an attempt to get her a cab house."
Her father Paul Thornton mentioned: "She was very treasured to us. We're very pleased with her.
She achieved a lot in her brief life. She was so single minded, very decided, onerous working and really formidable."
He mentioned the household didn't blame anybody for the tragedy and have been grateful to Mrs Rogers for doing every thing she might to assist her on the seashore.
A publish mortem concluded she died from head and neck accidents according to a fall from top.
She was 1.5 occasions the drink drive restrict however was a "match and effectively" younger girl.
The senior Cornwall coroner Andrew Cox mentioned Megan was of a thoughts to stroll again to her handle at 2am and set off however fell over the cliff edge onto the rocks under.
He recorded an unintentional loss of life conclusion saying: "This was a tragic accident."
He additionally counseled Mrs Rogers as she tried to save lots of Megan however mentioned there was nothing she might do to keep away from this end result.
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