A STRETFORD girl fell from her window and died while volunteering in Nepal.

Jennifer Smith, 22, from Foxdenton Drive, suffered fatal head injuries when she plunged four floors from her hotel window in Kathmandu on December 4 last year.

The former Trafford College pupil, who was on a 10-week volunteer programme called Platform2, died the next day.

Jennifer, described by her mum Janet Thorpe as a ‘very outgoing’ person who liked to help people and loved performing arts, had been in Nepal for seven weeks when she died.

Janet spoke to Jennifer every Sunday while she was in Nepal and said she was happy and loving her time in the country.

During the week, Jennifer and 14 other volunteers lived with Nepalese families while they taught English and helped build a school.

At the weekends the group would often travel to Kathmandu, where they would stay in a hotel and party.

On the night of her death, Jennifer had been out to several bars with other volunteers before returning to the hotel to drink Nepalese whisky with the group.

Volunteer Stephan Heathcote told Stockport Coroner’s Court on October 11, that Jennifer had been very drunk and earlier in the evening had caused a scare when she got in the wrong taxi and was separated from the others.

After getting back to the hotel, Stephan and two other volunteers helped put Jennifer to bed as she was ‘very drunk, couldn’t walk and kept falling over’.

Stephan then went to the toilet and as he went back into the bedroom saw Jennifer fall out of the window.

“I saw Jen was by the window and I said ‘what are you doing’ and she fell out of the window. I ran to the window and saw her on the floor,” he said.

Deputy coroner Joanne Kearsley said she was ‘completely satisfied’ that Jennifer’s death was an accident, but said alcohol intoxication was clearly a factor in her death.

“She had gone out there and she was doing an awful lot of good work there. It seems that she was enjoying herself and was enjoying the work that she was undertaking.

“I’m quite sure in fact that to some extent what happened was due to the amount of alcohol that she had consumed.

“I don’t for one second think that this is a case where Jennifer intended to take her life,” she said.