Dorset teenager Gaia Pope was ‘anxious’ before death, inquest hears

The 19-year-old, who died in 2017, was worried about the imminent release from jail of a man she told police had raped her

A teenager whose body was found on a Dorset clifftop after an 11-day search had been anxious about the imminent release from jail of a man she told police had raped her when she was 16, an inquest jury has heard.

Gaia Pope was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after the alleged rape and was worried that the man she had accused was about to be freed. On the day she vanished, Pope, 19, from Swanage, had been due to make a formal complaint to police after being sent indecent images on social media.

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