A university fresher who struggled with mental health problems hanged himself in his halls of residence after he was told to isolate amid a spike in coronavirus cases in Manchester, an inquest heard.
Finn Kitson, 19, was three weeks into a politics and international relations degree at the University of Manchester when he took his own life at halls of residence in Fallowfield in 2020.
The teenager, described by his parents as 'beautiful and brilliant', had been told to isolate after one of the seven other students in his flat contracted Covid-19 in September 2020 when virus numbers in Manchester were beginning to rise sharply following the end of the first national lockdown.
Security staff found him dead in his room on October 8, 2020 - with just two of his 14 days of isolation remaining. READ MORE: "If it's not bolted down it goes walkies": A Manchester estate is being rocked by thieves and fires His mother Jane Denney told an inquest in Manchester on Monday her son had been a 'normal happy-go-lucky boy' but he began to suffer from anxiety when he was 14 or 15 and was prescribed the antidepressant fluoxetine when he was about 17.