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Fast Show star's child found dead at 25 after leaving heartbreaking note


Cal Shearer, 25, a neuroscience PHD student, was found dead in their room at St John's College in October after leaving a heartbreaking note to their family

Despite volunteering for the Samaritans helpline, Cal had faced a long-standing struggle with mental health issues, a battle that their family has highlighted as part of the broader, yet not fully understood, crisis of suicides among autistic individuals identifying as trans. During a hearing at Oxford's Coroner's Court on Monday, it was revealed that Cal had been at Leckford Road in Jericho on the fateful day, with the cause of death recorded as hanging. Vicky Licorish, also an actress and film producer, honoured her youngest child with touching photographs and words, expressing: "Our brave, beautiful, blazingly clever, wickedly funny and endlessly compassionate Cal sadly lost their battle with mental health this week.

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