Brilliant student's shock death (From Stroud News and Journal)

Brilliant student's shock death

A STROUD family is mourning the loss of a brilliant young student who died unexpectedly at university on Saturday.

Former Marling pupil Reignolde Yad'u'llah Mahboubian-Jones had just turned 20 and had a promising academic career in front of him when he died.

He was reading chemistry at Oxford's Christchurch College where he had just begun his second year.

Reignolde was a healthy young man and it remains unclear how he died.

A post mortem failed to identify the cause of death.

Police are not treating the death as suspicious.

"Reignolde was never really ill in his life," said his sister Yolanda, 18.

"He didn't know what the inside of a doctor's surgery looked like." Reignolde's family spoke to the News & Journal at their home in Paganhill about the loss of a gifted, intelligent young man who excelled at most things. "He was a very gentle lad in many ways," said his father Gawayne.

"He wasn't brash at all - he was quiet, tolerant and very accepting of others.

"Reignolde was a very special lad."

*For the full story see this week's SNJ