17-year-old Gaia Pope, who was found dead on a clifftop in Dorset in 2017, was terrified of alleged rapist, inquest told
A teenager found dead on a clifftop had become "terrified" of a man she accused of raping her, an inquest has heard.
She received messages threatening to kill her family from a man she said had raped her before she went missing, her twin told Dorset Coroner's Court.Gaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing in November 2017 Her twin sister, Maya Pope, told jurors her sister was worried about the imminent released from prison of the man she said attacked her. The man had been jailed for sex offences against other girls.
Describing phone calls she had with her sister on the day she disappeared, she said: "She was crying and saying she was very scared, and she thought the perpetrator was after her."Maya Pope added that her sister's epilepsy and mental health had both been deteriorating in the two years before her death.
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