A TEENAGE boy died after trying to recreate the death of Hollywood funnyman Robin Williams, an inquest heard.

Temidayo Joseph, 16, was found dead just hours after receiving his GSCE results last August.

An inquest at Chelmsford Coroner's Court today (March 12) heard how Temidayo, from South Ockendon, had been passing comment and speculating on the death of Robin Williams in the lead up to his death.

Giving evidence, Det Sgt Tara Barnes, who investigated the case as part of the child abuse investigation teams at Brentwood police station, pointed to a conversation Temidayo had about Mr Williams' death and its coverage with the media.

Det Sgt Barnes told the inquest: "Temidayo had said, ‘I don’t understand why somebody like Robin Williams would do this to themselves?’ “Later on reflection, it occurred to me he was thinking how did he do it, not why.”

Temidayo, a student at the Ockendon Academy, was found hanged just hours after receiving three Cs in his GCSE results on August 21, 2014, but these results were ruled out as having an impact on his death.

The coroner, Eleanor McGann, who said she did not have enough evidence to rule suicide beyond reasonable doubt so ruled the death an accident, said: “I do wonder if as a lovely bright boy, he was experimenting and accidentally killed himself.

“The grades he got were perfectly ok to do what he wanted to do. I find that there’s nothing to show that he intended to take his own life. He was an inquisitive boy with an enquiring mind. I find that this was an accident.”

Det Sgt Barnes added: “The school had prepared Temidayo that his results were not going to be all A stars, so the important thing was that he knew in advance.

“The school had prepared a variety of options and pathways – and in fact he did better than expected."

However, his aunt Elizabeth Dawodu, 58, of Hanford, Aveley, spoke to Temidayo just after he received his GSCE results.

She told the inquest: “He was definitely disappointed and I was advising him. I said, this is not the end of anything Temidayo.

“He was due to go back to the school the next day for a meeting about his results.”

The inquest also heard that Temidayo’s mother had tried to take her own life following her son's passing.

She has since moved to live in Nigeria with Temidayo’s younger sister, Cristiana, 12.

Friend Fatimah Akinwande, 46, of Kings Hill Avenue, Romford, said, “It was just too much for her having his reflection everywhere – and the reflection of his death.”