Girl, 16, took own life just days after she was raped – as her brave evidence helped convict attacker

THE body of a teenage girl who took her own life was found in a river two weeks after she accused a man of raping her, an inquest has heard. Leah Bedford, 16, was found eight days after she was reported missing from a hostel in York on September 30, 2023. After Leah’s body was…