TEENAGER Louise Joiner left a text message on her mobile saying 'I hope you can forgive me I love you all' minutes before taking her life with a shotgun.

The 18-year-old placed a 12-bore shotgun in her mouth while her father sat in a room next door, a High Wycombe inquest heard on Wednesday.

Geoffrey Joiner, who lived with his daughter at their home in Clarendon Road, High Wycombe, told the inquest he was eating his dinner in the lounge when he heard the fatal gunshot at about 6.30pm on October 29.

In a statement read out by coroner's officer, Geraldine Trickett, he said he had heard a loud bang which sounded like fireworks.

He said: "When I walked into the rear of the house I saw her slumped on the floor. I thought she had banged her head until I saw the blood and the gun on the floor.

"I realised she had shot herself."

He later found her mobile phone containing the emotional message on a nearby worktop.

Mr Joiner confirmed that Louise, who worked for a gamekeeper, had taken the shotgun from a cabinet at her house but that she would have had to unlock it and load the gun herself.

Louise's mother, Marion Doyle, who lives in Bracknell, sobbed as she told the inquest her daughter was a normal teenager and a keen sportswoman but that she was also a 'deep and intense person' and she knew she had been having difficulties but felt she 'could not reach out to her'.

Mrs Doyle said in a statement that one of her daughter's close friends had died in June last year and just two months after another friend had committed suicide.

She said her daughter became moody and stopped going out with her friends following the deaths.

Just hours before Louise took her life, her mother said she spoke to her daughter on the telephone.

Mrs Doyle, said: "I had said 'bye love' and she said 'bye mum' and those were her last words."

Coroner for Buckinghamshire Richard Hulett, gave a verdict that Louise had taken her own life.

He told the inquest Louise had suffered some morbid thoughts and upsets in her past that had played on her mind.

He also said she had consumed quite a reasonable amount of alcohol which would have amounted to more than double the drink-drive limit.

He added that she seemed to have deliberately gone to the back room where she had unlocked the gun cabinet and loaded the gun and written the message before shooting herself.

Friends plan tribute to Louise

Players at Chesham Ladies Football Club, where Louise was a goalie, are planning to create a football trophy in her memory and are organising a memorial match against Denham Ladies Football Club, a team for which Louise also played.

Players at Chesham remembered her for her 'heart of gold' and Lisa Welling, chairman of the club, told the Free Press: "We've had a difficult season and we are all very tired.

"But Louise is in our thoughts and the girls will give it their best performance with Louise somewhere in their minds."

She added that the idea of holding an annual trophy match to be named after Louise was also under consideration.