A NATIONAL level kickboxer who was described as the ‘life and soul of the party’ died as a result of misadventure, an inquest heard.

Shannon Lee Archer, from Barrow, was found hanged in her bathroom in the early hours of April 4 this year.

Coroner Kirsty Gomersal said the 18-year-old intended her actions, but did not attempt to take her own life.

She told the inquest, held at Cockermouth Coroner’s Court: “I accept the cause of death as hanging.

“This is a death by misadventure as she intended the actions but this was not the intended result.”

The Westway resident, who had been a kickboxer at national championship level, was ‘the apple of her father’s eye’.

Simon Archer said: “She made me the man I am today. She liked everything. She was a championship level Kickboxer, the second best in England.

“Then she had different interests as a teenager.

“She is my little girl, my baby.”

Mr Archer said she had aspirations of being a nurse.

Mother Carrie Mcluskie said her daughter was born in Barrow and went to Cambridge Primary and then went on to Furness Academy.

She added: “She later worked as a carer for a year which she loved. She went on to work in a chip shop.”

Mrs Mcluskie said they had party in their house with Shannon’s boyfriend Brandon Mould, who often worked away with the army.

“Shannon, Brandon, and I were having some alcohol, we were having a great time,” Mrs Mcluskie said.

“Shannon was as she normally was.”

She said she went to bed at around 1.30am alongside Shannon’s sister, and step-father Martin Mcluskie.

Mrs Mcluskie was later woken by her daughter who told her Shannon was unresponsive on the bathroom floor downstairs.

Mr Mould, who was the last person to speak to Shannon, said in his statement: “We went outside for a smoke.

“She later said she was going to the bathroom and to check on her in five minutes. I didn’t think anything of it at the time.”

Mr Mould found her unresponsive and alerted the family to the situation.

They then took her to the living room where they began chest compressions until the ambulance service arrived.

A paramedic for the North West Ambulance Service said the crew arrived just after 7am to attend to Miss Archer.

On arrival she was was suffering from a cardiac arrest, and a short while later she was taken to Furness General Hospital.

The inquest heard she had traces of cannabis and cocaine in her system when she died and had previously been to hospital following overdoses.