Megan Younger-Watson, found hanged after telling friends she had been raped
A 17-year-old British college student who told friends she had been raped at a house party was found hanged in her room the next morning.
Megan Younger-Watson told friends she was “distraught” after
being sexually assaulted at the party after a night of drinking on Feb. 15,
2019, in Ipswich — just hours before she was found dead in her hostel, the
Ipswich Star reported.
The teen’s death, the subject of an inquest at the Suffolk
County Coroner’s Court on Tuesday, determined that Younger-Watson had cocaine,
Ecstasy, and Xanax in her body when she died — but relatively low levels of
alcohol.
Police later identified her alleged attacker but declined to
press charges, although Suffolk Police Det. Inspector Daniel Connick
acknowledged it was “apparent” that Younger-Watson had been “too intoxicated”
to consent to sex, The Sun said in a report Wednesday.
“Megan was one of the most wonderful, bubbliest, happiest
people you’d ever meet,” her mother, Natashia Younger-Watson, told The Sun.
“She put everyone before herself. That’s why there’s been such a big tribute to
her. She was absolutely amazing.”
The teen, a drama student at Suffolk New College in Ipswich,
had a history of anxiety and depression and was facing eviction from the
Christchurch House hostel.
The night before her death, Younger-Watson was out with
friends for a night of partying at the Grinning Rat pub, and joined the group
at a party at a local apartment when the bar closed at midnight, the Ipswich
Star said.
The teen rarely went out and told a friend she “didn’t know
what she was doing.”
After telling her friends of the assault, Younger-Watson was
twice carried upstairs by the night manager at the hostel, but was ultimately
left alone. At 10 a.m. the next morning, her friends called the police because
she was not answering her door.
Police broke the door down and found her unresponsive, the
reports said.
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