Tragic suicide of Scots teenager 'may have been avoided' by better NHS mental health care

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suicide of a Scots teenager might have been avoided if she had better mental health support from an NHS service, a sheriff has ruled.A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) has taken place into the death of Sophie Parkinson more than six years after the tragedy.Sophie was just 13 when she died at her home, in Liff, on the outskirts of Dundee in 2014.She was a second year pupil at the £13,000-a-year High School of Dundee and first sought help from mental health services when she was seven.Now after the inquiry, a judgement has been issued by Sheriff Lorna Drummond QCThe FAI focussed on the care she received from psychological experts at NHS Tayside’s CAMHS - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.And the Sheriff said that a number of precautions.