A teenager’s life was celebrated as hundreds gathered to say goodbye to college student Charlotte Wasey.

More than 100 friends and family attended the former Carshalton High School pupil’s funeral at Croydon Crematorium on Thursday, July 7.

The talented photographer, 17, who was studying at Kingston College, killed herself at her home in Wallington on June 26 using her mother’s insulin.

During the service, Reverend David King, of St Patrick’s church in Wallington, read out a tribute to the tearful mourners on behalf of her mum, Samantha Martin, and her dad, Richard Wasey.

It said: “To our gorgeous, darling beautiful daughter, our Charlotte, who we never told we loved enough.

“We know you disagreed sometimes, we believe this is because we were three of a kind.”

“You have broken our hearts into tiny pieces.”

He also read out a tribute from her best friend Sarah Dunne who described how Charlotte had “an amazing talent” for photography, “who could have achieved anything she wanted”.

Sarah said the only thing that kept her smiling was knowing she had been Charlotte’s best friend.

Mr King also addressed the mourners himself.

He told them: “It feels we have not just lost Charlotte but we have lost the future somehow.”

Some of the teenager’s favourite music was played, including Example’s Watch the Sun Come Up, and Your Song, by Ellie Goulding.

Afterwards, mourners laid flowers for her outside the crematorium.

Her boyfriend attended the funeral and his mum asked for it to be clarified this week the couple had not split up in the days before her death.

She said: “They had a row but were still very much together and were in love.

“There were many things going on in her life which could have caused her to do this but it was not her relationship with our son.”

A wake was held at the Broad Green Tavern in West Croydon.