Girl, 16, took her own life after 'fixating' on detention

A schoolgirl who took her own life at a top boarding school had become "hyper-fixated" on having received her first detention in the weeks before she died, her father has revealed.

- EMILY ATKINSON

Caitlyn Scott-Lee, 16, died at £44,000-a-year Wycombe Abbey School, in Buckinghamshire, on Friday 21 April. She was found in a wooded area near the playing fields that evening, not far from the school’s sports centre playing grounds.

Her father Jonathan Scott-Lee has now shared his daughter’s final diary entry, in which she thanked her friends for their love, wished them luck and said goodbye.

In the note, seen by The Sunday Times, Caitlyn recounts running away from a school trip to Eton College as a cry for help. “I hope this is my last diary entry. I want to kill myself tomorrow,” the entry, written the night before her death, is reported to have read.

Speaking of how the threat of detention had been playing on her mind, she writes: “Running away was the best cry out for help I could give and you [Wycombe] responded with ‘we’d normally punish you but you’re already getting punished’.”

Just hours before she had reportedly been due to receive a twohour punishment, known as a “headmistress’s detention”, Caitlyn took her own life.