A CORONER has said further suicides at universities in Brighton are “inevitable”.

Brighton and Hove coroner Veronica Hamilton-Deeley made the comments during an inquest into the death of 20-year-old University of Sussex student Shubamso Pul.

She said: “I’m very concerned as a coroner at the amount of deaths of young people we are seeing.”

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She added: “I don’t think Shubamso was alone in how he was feeling. He obviously had great difficulties coping.”

Miss Hamilton-Deeley praised the University of Sussex saying the student experience was unrecognisable now to what it had been in previous years.

She said: “I think the university has done a huge amount (to improve its support services).

“I can think back to just a few years ago, the experience might have been quite different.”

Hearing of the experiences of Shubamso’s grieving flatmates in the period following his death, Miss Hamilton-Deeley described his death as “a stone in a pond” and said it sent “all sorts of ripples”.

She said: “This is an opportunity for you (Shubamso’s flatmates) to say, ‘if something like this happens again (and it will, inevitably) can we be a support group for people affected.

“There’s a huge room now for you to create a legacy for Shubamso.”

She later expanded on her concerns at the number of deaths of young people she was currently seeing in Brighton and Hove.

Miss Hamilton-Deeley said: “This is an opportunity to help other people, and there are a lot of people who feel very frightened at the moment.

“As a coroner we are seeing the deaths of people who are scared to leave their houses, they won’t even speak to people through their letterboxes.

“We can talk to them and let them know that help is available.”

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