An autistic teenager who tragically died days after transitioning from school to college was a "gifted artist", an inquest has heard.
Aylish Louise Stewart died at the University Hospital of North Durham on March 8 last year after she was found hanging at her home in Ushaw Moor, County Durham. An inquest into the 17-year-old's death heard how Aylish, who had autism, ADHD and anxiety, had attended Durham Trinity School in Durham for around five years and had a placement three days a week at Misty Blue Farm in Spennymoor.
Preparations then began for her to transition to Thornbeck College in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, on March 1 last year. The inquest, which is being held at Durham & Darlington Coroner's Court in Crook, heard how following her transfer, Aylish did not want to go to college.
