A young woman tragically lost her life when she fell from a cliff edge while attempting to make her way home after a night out in Bude, Cornwall.
Megan Thornton, a recent graduate of Exeter University’s Business School, had been staying at a holiday cottage with a group of strangers she had met during the evening. She was told she could not stay the night due to the number of people already sleeping at the property and decided to leave.
According to an inquest into her death, Megan calmly left the cottage with another guest and tried to call a cab. However, she seemed to have made up her mind to walk home despite not knowing the area and the lack of lighting. The solar lights that normally indicate the cliff edge were not functioning that evening, leaving the cliff unprotected. As a result, Megan accidentally walked off the edge and fell 30 feet onto rocks below.
