BITTER SWEET

FAMILY TO RECEIVE TRAGIC ETHAN'S DEGREE

- BY JACKIE GRANT

THE heartbroken mum of a student who took his own life on his graduation day after being wrongly told he had failed will collect his degree today.

Tracy Scott will attend a University of Glasgow ceremony to "honour Ethan Brown's memory, hard work and dedication to his studies and his dream of graduating".

Tracy found Ethan, 23, dead in his bedroom as they prepared to leave for his big day on December 13 last year three months after Glasgow University told him in error he did not have the credits needed to graduate.

A month later his devastated family discovered the geography student had been given the wrong grade and had achieved a 2:1 honours degree. The university later apologised for its "tragic error".

Tracy, from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, previously told the Record: "We deserve to have Ethan's degree. It would be heartbreaking.

"But he worked hard for it and we should have it. We shouldn't have to ask for it."

The mum has accused the university of "repeated incompetence". She said what should have been a celebration turned into the "worst day ever" when she went to check if he had slept in, only to find him dead.