Suffolk's senior coroner said the 21-year-old died 'as a result of a serious infection caused by an insect bite to the forehead'
A trainee easyJet pilot died after she was bitten by a mosquito and developed an infection which spread to her brain, an inquest heard.
Oriana Pepper, 21, from Bury St Edmunds, had a"wonderful career and life ahead of her" after passing her theory exams on the airline's training programme.she was bitten by a mosquito on her forehead and it appeared to get swollen and infected, an inquest heard.But Ms Pepper was driven back to the hospital two days later by her boyfriend James Hall after she collapsed, and she died three days later.
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