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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Tristan Cork & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

University broke law by forcing suicidal student with anxiety to give presentation

A top university has been told to pay more than £50,000 in damages for discriminating against a student who killed herself.

Natasha Abrahart was crippled by shyness and anxiety at the prospect of making a big presentation of her work to a large group of other students at the University of Bristol.

The idea left her suicidal - and she told counsellors at Bristol University in 2018 that she feared she may take her own life if she had to do it, BristolLive reports.

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