The family of a student who committed suicide have been awarded £50k in damages after winning a landmark civil case against a university for contributing to her death.
A senior judge today found Bristol University liable to ‘multiple breaches’ of its legal duties towards its former student Natasha Abrahart, 20, who took her own life in 2018.
The verdict followed a trial in March this year to decide whether the university had a direct role to play in Natasha’s death.
Her body was found in her private flat in April 2018, on the day she was due to give a presentation to fellow students and staff in a 329-seat lecture theatre.
The second-year physics student had been diagnosed with chronic social anxiety disorder in February 2018.
The University of Bristol must pay out £50,000 in damages, after a judge ruled today that they contributed to Natasha Abrahart’s suicide in 2018 by engaging in ‘indirect disability discrimination’ against the 20-year-old physics student. Pictured: Natasha…
