The mother of a student who took his own life after being wrongly told he would not be eligible to graduate has collected his degree posthumously on his behalf.

Ethan Scott Brown, 23, was due to graduate in December 2024 after studying geography at the University of Glasgow .

However, his family said that in September 2024 the university told him that he had not been awarded a grade for one course and would therefore not be eligible to graduate with an Honours degree.

They said that, as a result, he went on to take his own life on December 13 2024, the day he should have been graduating, and was found dead in his bedroom by his mother Tracy Scott early that morning.

On Monday, his family attended the university’s graduation ceremony on his behalf where they were given his BSc Geogr

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