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Jeffrey Epstein report: ‘Significant misconduct’ by prison officials led to Epstein’s suicide

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The Independent UK

Jeffrey Epstein suicide blamed on jail guard negligence and misconduct

The workers assigned to guard Epstein were sleeping and shopping online instead of checking on him every 30 minutes

Evening Standard

Scathing watchdog blames Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide on prison staff leaving him unchecked in cell

The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General released its report on Tuesday, finding that multiple prison staff members failed to check on the disgraced financier despite him being on suicide watch

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Death of Konaseema youth is suspected to be a suicide, says SP

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district Superintendent of Police P. Sridhar on June 27 (Tuesday) said that 21-year-old M. Shyam had reportedly ended his life in his relative’s house under Kothapeta police limits on the night of June 24. The body was found in the house the next day (June 25). The…

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Jeffrey Epstein suicide blamed on jail guard negligence and misconduct: Justice Department watchdog

The Justice Department’s watchdog says “a combination of negligence and misconduct” enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges

The Independent UK

Negligence, staff failures led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide, a DOJ report says

The disgraced financier who was jailed for sex trafficking charges, killed himself at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019. He died before standing trial.

WEKU

Dignitas has helped 540 British people die, MPs told

Swiss organisation calls for assisted dying to be legalised in UK and made available alongside palliative care

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Revisit Celine’s menswear show at Paris nightspot Le Palace in this new Hedi Slimane-shot film

Plus, Celine announces the date of its next menswear show in Paris, set to take place 2 July 2023

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Japanese kabuki star arrested for assisting mother’s suicide

Ennosuke Ichikawa’s parents were found dead in the actor’s home in May, while Ichikawa was taken to hospital.

Al Jazeera

Weekly US Government Data Roundup: June 26, 2023

The national homicide rate rose 30% in 2020, the largest single-year rise in more than a century.

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Shirley Ballas to take on ‘terrifying’ challenges to help prevent suicides

The Strictly Come Dancing judge is teaming up with the Campaign Against Living Miserably (Calm).

The Independent UK

Shattering stigmas

Wuttipong* lost his son to suicide last month. In order to come to terms with the grief, he visited the "Homecoming" at River City Bangkok and watched a documentary, called Mental-Verse, which interviewed five people experiencing mental health challenges.

Bangkok Post

MBBS student hangs self in Kurnool

A 22-year-medical student Lokesh died of suicide by hanging himself inside his room at the Viswabharati Private Medical College near Penchukalapadu village under K. Nagalapuram police station limits, on Sunday night. Lokesh was an MBBS third-year student and a native of Kavali in Nellore district. According to Sub-Inspector of Police…

The Hindu

The GOP's toxic positivity is a problem

From mass shootings to teen suicides, conservatives have found a mutual and stigmatizing scapegoat in mental health

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Northumberland mum whose daughter took own life aged 23 to carry Baton of Hope in suicide prevention event

Jayne Walsham has helped to organise the huge suicide awareness event that will reach the North East on Tuesday

The Conversation

What to do if your child is struggling: Steps caregivers can take to help kids and teens with their mental health

Emerging research suggests that child and adolescent mental health problems are on the rise. For example, one in four children report that they have experienced clinically elevated rates of depression, and rates of emergency department visits for attempted suicide have increased by 22 per cent in the past few years.

The Guardian - UK

‘Every single blow was one more nail in his coffin’: the life and death of Stormin’ Norman Hadley

Those who knew and loved former Wasps and Canada rugby player have had to find their own answers about his death

Chronicle Live

Prisoner takes his own life at HMP Northumberland during lockdown after denying he was suicidal

Justin McLelland, 29, was found hanged in his cell at HMP Northumberland during lockdown restrictions

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Daily Record

Heartbroken mum 'begs' for NHS overhaul after teenage son takes his own life

Beck Bromley passed away on November 24 last year, four days after he was found unresponsive at his family home.

Manchester Evening News

The mum 'begging' for change after son takes own life

'I am in the gut-wrenching position to see things that, if done differently, might, just might have saved our son's life'

Dynamite News

Uttar Pradesh: Youth commits suicide after killing five including a newly-wed couple in Mainpuri

A youth killed five persons, including three family members, and injured two with a sharp-edged weapon and later committed suicide in the Kishani area of Mainpuri district here in Uttar Pradesh. Read further on Dynamite News:

Bristol Post

Father's grief inspires unique collaboration and creation of new opera

The Grief Opera shines a spotlight on suicide, the most common cause of death in young men

The Times of India

Woman in Telangana dies by suicide, live-streams final moments

HYDERABAD: A 29-year-old woman died by suicide in Hyderabad after she was allegedly abused by her husband. She also live-streamed her final moments on a social networking site, police said on Friday.

The Hindu

Three of a family die by suicide in Telangana’s Khammam

Police say the chronic health issues of the woman, who recently underwent a surgery to remove a tumour at a private hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Tiruvuru, might have drove the trio to take the drastic step.

The Hindu

NHRC issues advisory to Centre, States to curb prison suicides

Concerned with the suicides in prisons, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on June 23 issued an Advisory to the Centre, States and UTs to take immediate measures to check the same. Jail authorities were asked to do regular check on bed sheets and blankets of inmates to ensure that…

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