Callie Lewis
3 Dec 2019 · Coroner Patricia Harding · Kent (Central and South East)
A similar concern from this report was raised again 2 times later. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. use of online suicide forum
“[the deceased] was using an online suicide forum, (the forum now appears under the internet address .Through the forum she was able to engage in discussions with other pro-suicide members and obtain advice how to mislead mental health professionals to avoid being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and also how to perfect the methods of taking her life that she had been considering. She was enabled by the advice provided through the forum to frustrate a mental health assessment and thereafter take her”
Linked reports
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
This report
“[the deceased] was using an online suicide forum, (the forum now appears under the internet address .Through the forum she was able to engage in discussions with other pro-suicide members and obtain advice how to mislead mental health professionals to avoid being sectioned under the Mental Health Act”
Later report
“The concern here is that this site & potentially similar self-harm & suicide "facilitating, or promoting" sites are accessible/available to those, such as BM who are vulnerable, due to their diagnosed, or otherwise mental illness & provided with an outlet/forum to source & acquire information that potentially equips them with the knowledge & means to either complete suicide, or place them in grave/greater danger of doing so.”
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
This report
“[the deceased] was using an online suicide forum, (the forum now appears under the internet address .Through the forum she was able to engage in discussions with other pro-suicide members and obtain advice how to”
Later report
“(3) [REDACTED], is a forum that permits material to be exchanged and viewed within its open chatrooms whereby suicide is encouraged, assisted, counselled and procured through the provision and exchange of information and methods.”
Responses
2019-0414-Response-from-DCMS.pdf ↗· Culture
Stated action
“The regulator may also undertake thematic teviews of areas of concern, for example, a review into the treatment of self-harm or suicide-related content.”