Bognor victim of post traumatic sress hanged herself

Emma Hogan, 22, of Southdown Road, was found dead by her housemate, Katie Fisher, just after 7.30pm on July 24.

At an inquest in Worthing, on Wednesday, October 14, coroner Penelope Schofield heard how Emma had previously been in the Army but was diagnosed with post traumatic stress while training.

She attended counselling where she revealed she had experienced personal problems in the past, including a problematic relationship, and had started to feel 'low and depressed'.

On leaving the Army, she was going to work with her father but then accepted a job at a nursing home. In a statement read out during the inquest, mum Susan Horner said the last time they spoke everything was fine.

Ms Schofield also heard a statement from Emma's housemate who said she had seen her the evening before when she had been 'laughing and in quite a good mood'.

However, the inquest heard Emma did have an argument with her girlfriend a few days before her death.

A post mortem at St Richards Hospital, in Chichester, revealed Emma died from asphyxiation and hanging.

It also found she had a large amount of alcohol in her body '“ 193milligrams per 100millilitres.

Ms Schofield said although Emma had not left a suicide note, the coroner's finding was that she took her own life.