A HAMPSHIRE schoolgirl whose disappearance sparked a three-week countywide search killed herself after a row with her parents, an inquest heard today.

Rosemary Edwards, 15, of Wellington Close, Dibden Purlieu, left her home in the middle of the night and walked nearly ten miles to Busketts Lawn, where she hanged herself with orange bailer twine.

Southampton Coroner Keith Wiseman heard that Rosemary had argued with her parents after losing a part time job in a shop.

Rosemary was dismissed after helping herself to a can of drink and sweets, the hearing was told.

But Mr Wiseman said that her parents, David and Jennifer, could have had no inkling that Rosemary was planning to kill herself.

"There was no formal indication of what she was going to do. She must have had so many opportunities to realise that what she was doing was wrong but she pressed on with an obvious determination to bring about this terrible end result."

Rosemary's badly decomposed body was found suspended from a tree almost three weeks later.

Mr Wiseman recorded a verdict that the schoolgirl took her own life.