A 20-year-old female student died when she fell from rocks during a climbing accident trip in Devon.

Josephine Docherty was with a party of friends and her boyfriend when the accident happened at Chudleigh, on August 7, a coroner said.

She suffered a traumatic brain injury and died in Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital last week.

Josephine – known as Jo – was a student living in Sheffield.

The Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team were involved in stabilising her in a ’technical rescue over vertical and overhanging rocks’.

A spokesman said: ‘Team members then carried the stretcher through woodland to an air ambulance landing site.’

The Plymouth and South Devon coroner Ian Arrow opened an inquest into her death and said there were no suspicious circumstances.

The inquest has been adjourned for a full hearing.