As she stood up to get off the bus a stop early on her way home from school, 11-year-old Ursula handed a friend a handwritten note in an envelope which read ‘Do not open until after 6pm’.

By the time the her friend had dutifully followed those instructions, Ursula was dead, having jumped 30 feet from a bridge into a rocky river below.

In the note, girl wrote that she had ‘given up’ and stopped fighting’.

The heartbreaking revelation – along with news that young Ursula had been planning to take her own life for several months – was revealed.

she had taken her own life in a pre-planned bid to jump from the bridge, adding Ursula’s resolution in her actions was ‘very difficult to reconcile in the case of such a little girl.’

Ursula Keogh, died of a head injury at around 6.55pm  sustained from falling from a height.

The court heard she was a ‘troubled young girl’ who was ‘struggling with the stresses and strains’ of a breakdown of marriage between her parents.

she was reported missing in January this year, after her mother received a text which read: ‘I love you, so so sorry’.

On the day of her death Ursula went to school as normal, but her mother Nicola Harlow revealed in hindsight that she had been unusually affectionate, turning to say ‘I love you’ and giving her a kiss as she left for the day.

Writer Nicola Harlow told her daughter’s inquest that it was ‘strange’ behaviour from Ursula. At 3.30pm she texted her mum again, with the message : ‘I love you, so so sorry’.

When her mum rang her phone 14 minutes later it was picked up by a stranger who had just found it lying on the ground at the top of the bridge, close to a floral memorial to a previous victim.

Several hours later her body was recovered from the River Calder at Paris Gates in Halifax.

Teachers reported her behaviour as normal on the day she went missing – but after handing her friend the pre-written suicide note she got off the bus one stop early to walk to the bridge alone.

-Dailymail