A schoolgirl whose life was made a misery by bullies wrote a heartbreaking note shortly after taking a cocktail of painkillers and alcohol, an inquest heard.

Tormented Danielle Goss, a blonde-haired 15-year-old, took the lethal mixture following an argument with other youngsters.

Danielle told her friends what she was planning and told them a girl had "put her through hell".

But two notes left by the teenager, which appear to have been written after she had taken the tablets, suggested she had regretted her actions. But by then it was too late and the fatal cocktail had already started to kill her.

Danielle's mother Diane, 38, was devastated when she later read: "If I live, I'm sorry, I love you all, I love you very much, Hope I live, Love Dani."

She was found dead later that night at her grandmother Anne Fenwick's flat in Buxton Close, Jarrow, South Tyneside.

A post mortem examination revealed she had consumed enough alcohol to put her slightly over the drink drive limit, along with a fatal level of painkillers,

South Tyneside coroner William Duffy said the youngster had taken the drugs to show the world how she was suffering.

He recorded a verdict of accidental death.

A second note left by Danielle expressed similar sentiments, the hearing was told.

Friends told the South Shields inquest that Danielle, who was known as Dani, had been bullied on a number of occasions.

She had also been threatened over a small amount of money she was accused of owing to an older girl.

After the hearing Mrs Goss, who has two other children Christopher, 14, and Dionne, 11, said: "What happened to Danielle should serve as a warning to other parents."