List of those for whom Welfare Reform and cuts were too much to bear

[treelover]

Be strong Kitty, there are lots of allies now...

 

[teqniq]

A JOBLESS father has taken his own life following a battle with benefits bosses, his heartbroken family revealed last night.

Iain Hodge, 30, committed suicide at the flat he shared with fiancee Vicki Pollock.

Vicki, 28, discovered his body when she got up in the morning.

She called the emergency services but there was nothing that could be done for the dad of one from East Kilbride.

His dad Willie said Iain had seemed fine hours earlier.

Willie told our sister paper the East Kilbride News that Iain, who had a serious blood disorder, had been left without money by the Benefits Agency for 10 weeks....

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/benefits-row-dad-takes-life-1875339

 

[treelover]

Are English national papers, etc reporting these sad deaths?

 

[treelover]

Btw, this thread has has twenty thousands views, some of them may be the families of the deceased, we must keep this particular thread on topic.

 

[teqniq]

Bedroom Tax victim commits suicide

Ten days ago Stephanie Bottrill sat in the redbrick terrace house which had been home for 18 years to write notes to her loved ones, the Sunday People reports .

She ripped the pages from a spiral-bound notebook and placed them neatly in little brown envelopes.

There was one for her son. Another for her daughter. Her mother. Friends. And a very special one for the year-old grandson she doted on.

Then in the early hours of last Saturday Stephanie, 53, left her home for the last time, leaving her cat Joey behind as the front-door clicked shut.

She crossed her road in Meriden Drive, Solihull, to drop one of her letters and her house keys through a neighbour’s letterbox. Then she walked 15 minutes through the sleeping estate to Junction 4 of the M6.

And at 6.15am she walked straight into the path of a northbound lorry and was killed instantly. Stephanie Bottrill had become the first known suicide victim of the hated Bedroom Tax....

 

[ddraig]

saw that
fuck ing hell

 

[kittyP]

RIP

 

[Libertad]

too much sadness

 

[brogdale]

Soon enough, tragic stories like this will not even be seen as newsworthy.

Very sad indeed.

 

[panpete]

R.I.P.

 

[treelover]

blood on their hands....

 

[barney_pig]

Bedroom Tax victim commits suicide

Sky news are running with this, nothing on bbc

 

[BigTom]

LBC radio this morning too apparently.

 

[BigTom]

And the Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ies-leaving-note-saying-Government-blame.html

 

[teqniq]

 

[treelover]

Ring the BBC, tell them what you think..

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

 

[treelover]

just rang them, I think you are allocated about two minutes.

 

[BigTom]

Telegraph, channel 4 website, metro and Birmingham mail all running this story too.

 

[J Ed]

Sky news are running with this, nothing on bbc

Is this because there are specific rules on covering suicides in broadcast media?

 

[J Ed]

The Guardian aren't covering it either.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Mirror, The Independent, ITN also have the story

 

[panpete]

It's very sad that this woman deliberately ran out in front of a lorry due to bedroom tax, but it's good that some English media are covering it, but they never covered the many suicides that were driven by Atos and the medicals.
English media are crap and I am getting more and more ashamed to be English every fucking day.

 

[J Ed]

It's very sad that this woman deliberately ran out in front of a lorry due to bedroom tax, but it's good that some English media are covering it, but they never covered the many suicides that were driven by Atos and the medicals.
English media are crap and I am getting more and more ashamed to be English every fucking day.

Is the Scottish media covering this stuff? I had no idea!

 

[panpete]

Is the Scottish media covering this stuff? I had no idea!

Yes, much more honestly and realistically than Engllsh media, probs cos we still have loads of people who believe in the tory ideology of hoarding wealth and to hell with everyone else.

 

[existentialist]

Is this because there are specific rules on covering suicides in broadcast media?

There's rules on how they are reported (not too much details of means and methods, etc), but not on whether they should be.

 

[panpete]

I think suicides should be reported honestly, cos that gives the public a more realistic picture of what happened, but, when was the media ever fair?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is this because there are specific rules on covering suicides in broadcast media?

Nope. It's because someone somewhere along the command structure of the Beeb is making editorial decisions based on political motives. In the Beeb's case the political motive is mainly "don't piss off the government".

 

[panpete]

.

 

[treelover]

oops, lets keep it just for the losses,

that applies to me as well..