A teenage boy was found hanged after finding out the girl that he love, started dating another boy

News24xx.com -  A teenage boy was found hanged after finding out the girl that he love, started dating another boy.

An inquest heard, Harry Storey, 13, told friends on WhatsApp that he had suicidal thoughts after making the discovery - but they believed he was joking.

The inquest also heard that he had watched a TV programme where a female star had hanged herself and he might have developed a glamorised view of what it might be like.

A police investigator told the inquest that, tragically, Harry did not intend to die when he hanged himself and likely did not realise how quickly he would lose consciousness.

The charismatic sports-mad boy "unintentionally" died after he was found hanging from a tie by his father.

The discovery of the schoolboy came as a complete shock to his devastated family. The coroner heard that the teenager's father, Andrew Storey, walked into the house in, Chilton, near Didcot, Oxon., after finishing work and saw Harry on the stairs out of the corner of his eye.

Mr Storey told the court that he started CPR on the year nine pupil and when his wife Sue walked in he shouted that Harry had hanged himself and to call for help.

Harry was rushed by road ambulance from his home to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on March 1 after he was discovered by his father and remained in the paediatric intensive care unit until his tragic death three days later.

Pathologist Dr Deirdre O'Shea confirmed the cause of death was hypoxic ischemic brain injury due to asphyxiation by suspension.

 

 

 

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