Student found dead in halls after 1st night at uni
Students at the University of Kent's Canterbury campus were shaken over the weekend, after an 18-year-old girl was found dead in her halls of residence on Sunday morning. She had enrolled into the university less than 24 hours previously.
The unnamed teenager was found unresponsive in her Tyler Court room on Sunday morning following her first night at university. Emergency services rushed to the scene after having been alerted at 8.37am, but immediately pronounced the student dead.
In a statement issued by the University of Kent to student newspaper InQuire, they said: "We can confirm the death of a female first year student at our Canterbury campus on 17 September. Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
"Next of kin have been informed and support is available for students and staff. Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time."
As it stands, no details have been released yet about the cause of death, but as confirmed in the university's statement, no foul play is thought to have occurred.
Molly Hope, a student working as a welcome helper at Tyler Court over the weekend, told InQuire: "We were moving everyone in, it was a really positive and happy experience on Saturday.
"We arrived Sunday morning to continue helping students moving in but there were ambulances and police cars outside of Tyler Court. We were informed that there had been an incident and access to the flat in question was blocked off. We were told to move aside as the ambulance crew left the premises."
Molly described how she had to calm down "shaken students" following the realisation of what had happened. "It was a sombre morning given how excited students usually are when they start their time at uni," she said.
Our thoughts are with the student's family.
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