Teenagers killed themselves in Dorset after baby taken into care, inquest finds

The inquest was told that the bodies of the pair were found at Bothenhampton reservoir, near Bridport, on 25 January 2022. Photograph: Max Willcock/BNPS

A teenage couple killed themselves after they were arrested and their infant child taken into foster care, a jury has concluded.

Katie Powell, 17, and Jack Williams, 18, were found dead at a nature reserve in Dorset, a four-week inquest in Bournemouth heard. After deliberating over three days, the jury concluded that Katie, from Warwickshire, and Jack, from Dorset, had taken their own lives.