A SINGLE mum plunged 80 metres to her death at a Dorset beauty spot moments after a man suffered fatal injuries while rock climbing, a joint inquest was told.

Ivan Lissin, 22, was tackling a "severe climb" with a group from Oxford University's mountaineering club when he fell and hit his head on a rock and ended up in the sea below Anvil Point, near Swanage. He was airlifted to hospital but died from severe traumatic brain injury the next day.

Bournemouth, Poole and East Dorset Coroner's Court also heard that Tansy Langton, 50, was walking with her eight-year-old daughter Olivia and was feared to have fallen while trying to get a better view of the rescue mission that afternoon, January 27.

But police found a suicide note at her Bournemouth flat. She had also written family contact numbers and put them in her daughter's pocket. Miss Langton died from multiple injuries due to blunt trauma.

Coroner Sheriff Payne heard that Miss Langton, who worked part-time in an auction house, had suffered mental health problems and was on medication. Mr Payne said she committed suicide. He also ruled that Mr Lissin, from Oxford, died from misadventure.

Fellow climber Gareth Uglow, who was on a ledge at the foot of the climb belaying Mr Lissin, said: "I pulled the rope as it came tight but all the gear ripped out and he fell behind me."

Mr Lissin was recovered and taken to a higher ledge where he was put in the recovery position and started breathing again. He was treated at Dorset County Hospital but transferred to Southampton.

Mr Payne said: "He was doing something he wanted to do that went wrong through no fault of his own and that resulted in his death."