A MOTHER paid tribute to her happy and popular teenage daughter at an inquest into her death.

Tracey Smith said Tasmin Dalton, 16, was doing well at school and had some good friends including on/off boyfriend Jordan Holloway.

The inquest in Winchester heard the teenager was found hanged just hours after filling out a medical form that would have shown medics she was a high risk of self-harm.

The day before her death she had been to see a GP at Boyatt Wood Surgery, where she was given the form to return the next day.

However it was found by police in her handbag near her body in Lincolns Copse, near Boyatt Wood, on July 12.

Tasmin had been diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder, the inquest heard. She had also been prescribed anti-psychotic drugs to stop her hallucinating and hearing voices, including her late grandfather’s telling her to “come and join him”.

She had been seen by Eastleigh Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMS) since November 2009.

Dr Moria Bingham, who worked closely with Tasmin, said: “She was a very private person and she very much liked to keep people apart and compartmentalise her life.”

Dr Bingham added that while Tasmin adored her parents, she did not want them involved with CAMS because she wanted her problems to be confidential.

The inquest was told that Tasmin stopped seeing CAMS a few weeks before her death because she felt betrayed after a clerical error meant a letter was sent to her mother from the service revealing she had been using cannabis.

Mrs Bingham told the hearing: “She (Tasmin) was very angry. Very angry with me.”

The hearing was told she sent a letter to Mrs Bingham, saying: “I was told everything said was strictly confidential and my mum would not be told. I’m appalled you have betrayed me.”

Mrs Smith, of Ruskin Road, Eastleigh, said her daughter had been calm and happy in the days before her death, especially at her school prom at Crestwood School in Eastleigh, but she thought it was because she had decided to kill herself.

Mrs Smith said: “She met up with her friends and her sister in the park on the day before she died and I think she just wanted to go not having any rows with people or falling out with anyone.”

Deputy Central Hampshire Coroner Simon Burge recorded a verdict of suicide.

He said Tasmin’s “demons were internal” and he was satisfied she had intended to take her life.

The hearing heard she left a note for her ex-boyfriend, saying she loved him and asking him to look after her family.