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Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Location: In the Goatshed in Melbourne

Saw this yesterday, cops should be able to phonebook crnuts like this....

Onlookers goad teen into suicide: report
October 2, 2008 - 6:29AM

LONDON - Onlookers goaded a teenager as he threatened to jump off a building and then took photos of his body, British newspapers reported today.

Shaun Dykes, 17, plunged 18 metres to his death from the roof of a car park at the Westfield shopping centre in Derby on Saturday after police negotiators tried in vain for three hours to talk him down.

A crowd had gathered underneath, with a few onlookers shouting abuse at him and urging him to jump.

Reports said one teenager yelled: "How far can you bounce?"

Superintendent Andy Hough, of Derbyshire police, said it was a "disturbing and shocking reflection on society when people feel inclined to do that".

"People were at the police cordon shouting for the man to jump," Hough told the Daily Mail.

An unnamed witness told the newspaper: "When he fell, lots of people were screaming and crying, but there were several groups of youths who ran from behind the cordon and looked like they were taking pictures with their mobile phones."

Dykes, of Kilburn, Derbyshire, had become depressed after a recent relationship break-up, friends told Britain's The Daily Telegraph.

Security guard Paul Kennedy told the paper: "There were horrible scenes that afternoon, with the crowd shouting some awful things at the poor young lad.

"The police did a fantastic job at the incident and were not helped by a baying crowd, some with children, calling for the lad to jump."

AAP

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2008/10/02/1222651208490.html[/b]

Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Location: SYDNEY

holy crap - how can they live with themselves.

they should be charged with verbal assult occasioning death or something - manslaughter perhaps.

fuggers!

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:50 pm

Maybe hit them with 'assisting a suicide' - it's illgeal in the UK...

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