THE student son of a Metropolitan policeman hanged himself days after meeting with his college principal to discuss dropping some subjects, an inquest heard.

Cameron Huston, 16, who studied GCSEs at Chalfonts Community College, Chalfont St Peter, was found hanging from a tree in Denham Country Park on February 14.

Roger Humphreys, of Whinneys Road, Loudwater, told the High Wycombe inquest on Tuesday he discovered the teenager while out walking with his wife.

He said: "I saw a person's woolly hat. I could see his left hand was deathly white. I immediately turned my wife away from him. We walked back to the Buckinghamshire Golf Club and called the police."

Cameron's father PC Brian Huston, of the Metropolitan Police, only spoke to confirm his name, during the inquest.

The boy's mother Susan Veevers, of Oxford Road, Denham, said she did not notice anything strange about her son's behaviour in the days before his death.

She said: "He had been missing school which I knew about, but he had spoken with the principal the day before. He could drop the subjects he was not happy with."

She said she last saw him three days before his body was found, adding: "We were talking about digging a swimming pool in the back garden. I just can't understand it - he seemed so much happier than he had been for a while. I can't explain it at all.

Bucks Coroner Richard Hulett recorded a verdict of suicide.

He said: "Exam choices and exam worries are often the cause, but seemingly this was not the case. What's occurred here in my view could only have occurred deliberately, although for what motive I could not say."

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