Online suicide method guides and forums
Department for Science received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 31 Jan 2024 and 12 Mar 2025.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The downloaded document provides step by step instruction on how to end your life with specific advice and direction on the use of certain equipment.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Science responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The government is committed to delivering a renewed drive to tackle the number of lives lost to suicide. Cross-government action is key in achieving this, and coordinated action is taking place across government to enable us to rapidly identify and proactively tackle emerging methods of suicide as quickly and effectively as possible, with a series of interventions to reduce access and awareness of dangerous methods.”
Stated timescale: as quickly and effectively as possible
- 1 year 1 month laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“[the deceased] accessed an online 'suicide forum' where she was able to access information on how to take her own life and where she obtained advice/information on misleading professionals and her family as to her thoughts and intentions.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Science responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Department for Science
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2024 → 2025Rhiannon Williams1 year 1 month after Guy Scotchford · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight the danger of individuals obtaining suicide‑method information through online sources.
Guy Scotchford · 31 Jan 2024
“The downloaded document provides step by step instruction on how to end your life with specific advice and direction on the use of certain equipment.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Rhiannon Williams · 12 Mar 2025
“[the deceased] accessed an online 'suicide forum' where she was able to access information on how to take her own life and where she obtained advice/information on misleading professionals and her family as to her thoughts and intentions.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“The government is committed to delivering a renewed drive to tackle the number of lives lost to suicide. Cross-government action is key in achieving this, and coordinated action is taking place across government to enable us to rapidly identify and proactively tackle emerging methods of suicide as quickly and effectively as possible, with a series of interventions to reduce access and awareness of dangerous methods.”
Stated action · timescale: as quickly and effectively as possible
“The government is committed to delivering a renewed drive to tackle the number of lives lost to suicide. Cross-government action is key in achieving this, and coordinated action is taking place across government to enable us to rapidly identify and proactively tackle emerging methods of suicide as quickly and effectively as possible, with a series of interventions to reduce access and awareness of dangerous methods.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Department for Science at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 → 2025 | 0.71 | 0.15 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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