At only 16, Gabby Joseph was already looking at a promising career as a model.But that bright future was snuffed out on Easter Monday when the teenager was hit by a train and killed in a suspected suicide.
Hours earlier she had posted a heartbreaking message on the Facebook website saying that she ‘loved everyone’.
Friends desperately tried to reach Miss Joseph, who had recently split from a boyfriend, but she failed to respond.
They later discovered she had been struck by a 75mph train as it passed through the station just yards from her home.
Miss Joseph, who was studying for her A-levels and lived with hairdresser mother Julie, 43, and father Kerry, 40, had posed for photoshoots for an online clothing company and a local listings magazine.
But the 5ft 4in teenager longed to travel the world as a fashion model and was in the process of building a portfolio. Earlier this month, her portrait had been chosen as an image of the week by Digital Photographer magazine. Fellow model Nyane Lebajoa, 17, told the Daily Mail that her friend’s final Facebook message ‘said that she loved everyone’.
‘Gabs said she was going to miss everyone and had written “I need to do this for myself”,’ she said. ‘She had never written anything like this before and no one was expecting it. As soon as she posted the message everyone was trying to call her to see if she was all right. Read More
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