Taunton Teenager Inquest

A coroner has criticised the fashion industry following the tragic death of a 14-year-old girl. Fiona Geraghty was found hanged in her home near Taunton. Today's inquest heard she had developed an eating disorder. Robert Murphy reports.

Dr Elspeth Geraghty, whose daughter Fiona was found hanged at their Taunton home, says the treatment she was receiving for her eating disorder was inadequate. She read this statement outside court.

An inquest is continuing into the death of a 14-year-old girl who was found hanged at her home near Taunton. The court heard public schoolgirl Fiona Geraghty, who attended King's College in Taunton, had developed an eating disorder.

Her body was found by her father, John Geraghty, a pathologist, in Nailsbourne in July last year.