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A mentally-disturbed mother who was found hanged in
her flat near the strangled bodies of her two children told a psychiatrist she
“wanted to take her son’s life and then her own” three weeks before they died, a
coroner’s inquest was told yesterday.
Concerned she might injure herself
and others, she was sent to hospital for compulsory observation.
A teacher suspended over claims she helped pupils cheat in their GCSE exams hanged
herself – only to be exonerated after her death.
Vanessa Rann was
distraught after being accused of giving children unfair help during their
French oral examination.
She was sent home on full pay while an
investigation into the allegations was carried out, with pupils facing the
prospect of having their final grades changed.
A HEARTBROKEN man stabbed his best friend in the stomach after
breaking up with his girlfriend.
John Withers had been homeless since
the split but was given shelter by Trevor Phillips, a former work colleague.
But Withers got drunk after an unexpected meeting with his ex-partner
and returned to Mr Phillips’ house in the village of Wickhamford, near Evesham,
in “a zombie state”, said Alex Warren, prosecuting.
A HEARTBROKEN man stabbed his best friend in the stomach after
breaking up with his girlfriend.
John Withers had been homeless since
the split but was given shelter by Trevor Phillips, a former work colleague.
But Withers got drunk after an unexpected meeting with his ex-partner
and returned to Mr Phillips’ house in the village of Wickhamford, near Evesham,
in “a zombie state”, said Alex Warren, prosecuting.
He stuck the kitchen
knife four inches into Mr Phillips’ stomach in an unprovoked attack.
When police arrived, Withers was drinking a can of beer and the victim
still had the blade protruding from his body, Worcester Crown Court heard.
Withers, aged 44, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to unlawful
wounding and was jailed for 27 months.
Judge Richard Rundell said an
inch or two either way and Withers could have been facing a murder charge.
He accepted a defence submission that the attack was “inexplicable” and
said Withers might have mental health issues.
Mr Phillips, who lived
with his wife and step daughter, had known the defendant for 15 years and took
pity on him when he became homeless at the end of his romance, said Mr Warren.
But on June 26 Withers was spoken to by Mr Phillips about being drunk
and an argument blew up.
Later that evening Withers returned to the
address. The victim was making coffee when he felt the knife blow.
The
blade did not enter the abdominal cavity and he recovered after an operation.
Francis Laird, defending, said Withers had gone through a stressful
break-up and was “totally heartbroken”.
He was taking anti-depressants
when he met his ex by accident in a pub and began drinking heavily.
Mr
Laird said: “He became overwhelmed and did something quite inexplicable. He is
deeply sorry for what he did. It may have been out of his control.”
A FORMER Bolton School pupil who suffered from “dark
moods” took a fatal overdose of anti-depressants, an inquest heard.
Fay Turner died aged just 20 in July after a row with her ex-boyfriend.
The overdose of prescribed medication was the latest in a number taken by Miss
Turner, who had a history of mental health illnesses including anorexia and
depression.
Miss Turner’s father, Philip Turner, of Andrew Lane, Bolton,
described his daughter as a bright girl.
A Brighton mother-of-two committed suicide by dousing herself in barbecue lighter
fluid and setting it alight after battling with a chronic alcohol problem and
depression since being made redundant, an inquest heard today.
Birgit Bartlett’s body was found by her daughter in the garden of her home in
Hollingbury Crescent on August 8.
“I wondered if….
“I think it would be interesting to know if
he had been taking an SSRI (antidepressant). It seems, based on news reports,
that he was very depressed. He may have taken an SSRI and that may have played a
part. Hopefully that will be investigated to determine,” said Poyner, a Ph.D.
with a practice in Choctaw.
Poyner was out of state and was shocked to
hear of the local allegations against Dr.
Stephen Paul Wolf, jailed on murder and assault complaints in connection
with the recent stabbing death of his 9-year-old son, Tommy. The Nichols
Hills doctor told the medical licensure board that he took antidepressants,
records show.
Twenty-five miles east of downtown Estacada,
near the Ripple Brook Ranger Station on Highway 224, a mentally disturbed
Estacada man went on a rampage Nov. 18, breaking windows, chasing family members
from the home and firing shots from a .22-caliber rifle.
But after a
two-hour standoff with Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputies and SWAT negotiators,
Brent A. Hatcher, 28, was taken into custody and booked in the Clackamas County
Jail for unlawful use of a weapon and reckless endangerment, with bail set at
$200,000. Charges of attempted murder were dropped, but Hatcher remains in jail
under close supervision.
Glenn Richardson is the Speaker of
the House in the Georgia legislature. He has been elected to represent those in
the Dallas/Hiram part of the state seven straight times and, when he became
Speaker in 2003, he was the first Republican chosen since Reconstruction.
Earlier this year, he was unanimously chosen as the legislature’s leader for the
third straight time.
In short, he doesn’t fail at many things, but a week
ago he tried to commit suicide. Because of quick action by emergency teams in
Paulding County, his life was spared and, in a moving story that appeared in
Saturday’s Atlanta newspaper, he courageously admitted he fights severe
depression and will use the near-tragedy to better suicide prevention.
WAGGA boy Brayden Rowley has
a good heart, a wonderful sense of humour and a generous soul his loving mum
just hopes others can see that.
Annette Rowley is desperate for a
diagnosis for her beautiful eight-year-old son, but having exhausted every
available avenue through the NSW mental health system, is now not sure where to
turn.
After reading Karene Eggleton’s journey in The Weekend Advertiser,
the mother of four young boys felt compelled to come forward and let others know
Ms Eggleton’s son’s struggle to find appropriate care is not an isolated one.