All news on the topic: Suicide

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Ex-Strictly star says media and online harassment pushed him to breaking point
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Wynne Evans has admitted that he ’ended up in hospital’ after attempting suicide following his various scandals on the show. The 53-year-old competed on the dance competition’s series last year and was partnered with professional dancer Katya Jones.
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OpenAI reveals over a million weekly ChatGPT users show suicidal indicators
More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include "explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent", according to a blog post published by OpenAI on Monday.
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Russian billionaire and owner of Freedom Finance Timur Turlov accused of defrauding investors in Kazakhstan
Russian-born billionaire Timur Turlov and his controlled company, Freedom Finance, have become concerned about their reputation six months after complaints from victims.
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Co-writer of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir says Prince Andrew could still help investigators
The co-writer of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir has said it would be a mistake to think "the fetishisation of young girls" died with Jeffrey Epstein, as she detailed how Prince Andrew could still help with the investigation.
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Ricky Hatton’s death inquest reveals former boxing champion likely died by hanging
An inquest into the death of former world boxing champion Ricky Hatton has revealed he most likely died by hanging at his home on September 14, PA Media reported.
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Ukrainian crypto influencer Konstantin ‘Kudo’ Galich found dead in Kyiv amid market crash
Ukrainian authorities have reportedly launched an investigation into the death of crypto trader and influencer Konstantin Galich, who went by the alias Kostya Kudo (or “Kudo”).
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University of Glasgow error drove student to despair and death
The mother of a student who took his own life after wrongly being told he would not be eligible to graduate has spoken of her heartbreak, saying he was "failed" by the University of Glasgow.
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Holocaust survivor and actress Ruth Posner, 96, dies alongside husband, 97, at Swiss assisted dying clinic
A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor and former actress, who fled the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War before building a life in Britain, has died with her 97-year-old husband at an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland.
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Army officer confesses to sexually assaulting teenager Jaysley Beck before she ended her own life
A former senior noncommissioned army officer has admitted to sexually assaulting the teenage soldier Jaysley Beck, who later killed herself.
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‘Debt, hunger and despair’: woman took her own life after DWP error — renewed investigation confirms state’s fault
Rare second inquest hears that Jodey Whiting, 42, left notes saying she had no food and could not pay bills
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Chester FC fan dies by suicide after being accused of racist behavior during match
A football fan died by suicide just hours after police began an investigation into a racist gesture at a match.
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Two additional PSNI officers retire while under investigation for the Creswell case
A further two PSNI officers have retired while under investigation for new complaints into the mishandling of the Jonathan Creswell case, bringing the total who have quit to four.
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Drunk former Top Gun pilot killed family on M6 while ’deliberately’ driving on the wrong side of the motorway
A family from Glasgow was killed on the M6 when a former RAF pilot drove intoxicated on the wrong side of the motorway, an inquest found.
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IPP sentence ‘scandal’ continues as four more prisoners take their own lives
Prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms continuing to take their own lives, say campaigners, as government resists calls to re-sentence them
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Prosecutors say British husband ’likely killed ex-pat wife in France during a staged home burglary that went wrong’
A British man found dead alongside his wife at their home in rural France likely killed her during a botched staged burglary, police believe.
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Woman who was sexually assaulted by a postman took her own life while on the phone with Royal Mail
A woman who was sexually assaulted by a postman killed herself while she was on the phone to Royal Mail staff, a court has heard.
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Man found guilty of scheming £1,400,000 watch heist that drove manager to suicide
A man has been found guilty of plotting a £1.4 million watch robbery at a luxury jewellery story that jurors were told drove the manager to take his own life.
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Victim of sexual assault by predatory postman took her own life while on the phone with Royal Mail
The postal service had received multiple warnings about Michael Stewart, yet he continued to be employed despite complaints from five victims, a court was told.
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Getaway car ‘fixer’ found guilty of planning £1.38m watch robbery that resulted in shop manager taking his own life
A man has been convicted of orchestrating a £1.38 million watch heist, which ultimately drove another man to commit suicide.
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‘Catfish killer used my photo to deceive other girls,’ says victim
Warning: This story contains distressing details relating to extreme child abuse and suicide.
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Amazon instructed to remove ’how-to suicide guides’ from its site to prevent future deaths
Four coroners have, since December last year, raised grave concerns about the suicide guides after people who bought them on the shopping site took their own lives
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At least 50 individuals have reportedly taken their own lives after surviving the Nova festival attack
A survivor of the Nova Festival massacre has claimed that more than 50 people who were also there have committed suicide in the months after.
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Bullied genderfluid teen's cause of death released after 'school toilet assault'
Oklahoma 16-year-old Nex Benedict sustained multiple injuries after they were allegedly beaten alongside another transgender student in their High School toilets
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Dad calls for cyber-bullying to be made a crime after teen daughter's suicide
The father of Mia Janin, 14 who, is believed to have taken her own life after being relentlessly cyber-bullied, has called for greater measures to protect children online
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Man accused of killing kid then shooting self 'distraught over slaying of son'
Melvin McClinton Sr., 39, shot his toddler and then himself, police said, after an altercation with the child's mother. The father had been grieving the shooting of his elder son