Tragedy as schoolboy, 17, takes his own life after falsely thinking he had failed his maths GCSE

A TEENAGER took his own life after thinking he’d failed his maths GCSE.

The day after Alex Henshaw, 17, died his parents received an email saying his paper had been remarked and he had actually passed.

Mum Lisa Hamilton, from Winchester, said in a statement: “He had been very distressed, he had just failed a GCSE maths paper.

“The re-mark came back as a pass, I got an email the next day.”