A 17-year-old girl found dead just days after being arrested by police – and held in custody for an entire weekend – had threatened to kill herself in front of officers a month earlier, her inquest has heard.
Kesia Leatherbarrow, who suffered with mental health problems and drug addiction, was found dead in a friend’s garden in Dukinfield on December 3 – a day after she appeared in court.
Scot Young, the tycoon who died falling from his fourth storey London flat, had walked out of an NHS mental health unit shortly before his death, it has emerged.
The 52-year-old left the Gordon Hospital in central London hours before he fell from the apartment on Dec 8.
A mental health campaigner who launched a viral search for the Good Samaritan who talked him out of suicide is set to spend Christmas in hospital.
Jonny Benjamin, 27, has revealed he will be undergoing treatment for schizoaffective disorder over the festive period after his health deteriorated.
Speaking in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Mr Benjamin said he had been experiencing recurring suicidal thoughts
Manchester has been classed as ‘at risk’ from suicide according to Public Health England after the World Health Organisation revealed that someone takes their own life every 40 seconds.
More than 800,000 people globally die by suicide every year and it is the main cause of death among 15-29-year-olds in Europe, claims the WHO report which was published yesterday.
BETH Taylor accuses NHS 24 of failing her distraught mother Jane, now she reveals police failed to warn her about the harrowing scene she found when she went to Jane’s flat after the tragedy.
