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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Matthew Dresch & Laura Sharman

Student found dead after paying £1,000 to university but was 'too poor to study'

A student has been found dead after posting a series of troubling tweets about being unable to afford university.

The family of Rory Wood, from Hereford, say he had lost "his battle with his brain" and hoped that increased awareness of mental illness would be his legacy.

His cause of death has not been announced, but a pal claimed in a viral tweet that Rory had taken his own life because of the "hopelessness of his situation".

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