A TEACHER has been found dead in the Middle East after naked pictures of herself appeared on her Facebook page, an inquest has heard.

Emma Jones committed suicide as she was planning to return home to her family in Caerphilly, South Wales, the Daily Mail reports.

The 24-year-old primary school teacher, who was working at the International School of Choueifat in Abu Dhabi since 2008, feared she could be sent to jail in the Muslim country over the photos.

Miss Jones's mum, Louise Rowlands, told the hearing her daughter was distressed after her ex-boyfriend, Jamie Brayley, posted the pictures on the internet and an IT colleague working at the school came across them.

The Daily Mail reports Mrs Rowlands, 41, as saying: "He put a memory stick in the computer and copied some indecent images of Emma.

"He put them on her Facebook page and she said she was accused of prostitution by a man working at the school."

But Mr Brayley denied the claims at the inquest, describing them as "complete fantasy".

He said he had used Miss Jones's computer, but denied he had ever downloaded private photographs of her.

He said: "Emma never sent me any indecent images. She wasn't that type of character."

The paper reports deputy assistant coroner Thomas Atherton as saying he did not believe Mr Brayley was to blame for Ms Jones's death.

The inquest heard Abu Dhabi police believed Miss Jones had killed herself and ruled out foul play.

Mr Atherton said he could not be sure Miss Jones meant to kill herself and recorded an open verdict.



He said she may have accidentally drunk cleaning fluid from an unlabelled container, thinking it was water.

Mr Atherton said: "For whatever reason Emma expressed concern she was about to be arrested and put in prison.

"She agreed the best course of action was to leave Abu Dhabi and return to Britain. Her clothes were out and her passport was in her pocket. That's not someone who is contemplating suicide."

Emma told her mother she feared she would be jailed.

Mrs Rowlands said: "She was crying, she was breaking her heart. I said, 'Emma, whatever it is can't be that bad. Just come home'."

But Emma told her mother: "I can't leave the country, they will throw me in jail."

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