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Widow of Tasmania Police veteran Paul Reynolds questioned over his child exploitation allegations, mother's bank account

The wife of a high-profile Tasmanian police officer says she was completely unaware of her husband's alleged inappropriate dealings with children and the draining of his mother's bank account in the years prior to his suicide.

ABC News

Inquest hears Tasmania Police officer Paul Reynolds was facing child exploitation claims before suicide

A senior Tasmanian police officer who was part of the response to the Port Arthur massacre and the Beaconsfield Mine collapse was facing serious child exploitation allegations before his death, an inquest hears.

ABC News

Capitol Police officer's suicide after Jan. 6 ruled a line-of-duty death

"This is an important step in a longer effort to change outdated processes and attitudes," his family said.

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Suicide risk is high for military and emergency workers – but support for their families and peers is missing

Suicide is a complex issue that impacts 425,000 Australians every year. That’s because up to 135 people are directly or indirectly impacted by each suicide death.

The Conversation

Pro-suicide website blocks access to Australians after families speak out

Families had pushed to have a pro-suicide website blocked after it was linked to deaths. Now the administrators have denied access to Australians, but not because of the dangers to vulnerable people.

ABC News

Children as young as 10 self-harming

The COVID pandemic and climate anxiety are likely contributing to the stress that is causing an alarming number of adolescents to self-harm, a study has found.

AAP

Jason David Frank, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers star, dies at 49

Cause of death was not immediately released, though multiple reports indicated Frank died by suicide

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Italian commits suicide in immigration facility

An Italian man in his 50s committed suicide in the Tokyo immigration facility where he was being detained, the Immigration Services Agency has announced.

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‘Complete tragedy’: Lawyer’s husband kills her and three children in chilling murder suicide – and no one knows why

Reports suggest the family’s babysitter found the bodies

The Independent UK

Debbie Collier: Mystery death of Georgia woman ruled a suicide two months after burned body found in ravine

Death of Georgia mother-of-two has been shrouded in mystery for the last two months after she left a cryptic message to daughter before bizarre death

The Independent UK

Heartbroken fathers want suicide prevention to be taught in schools

3 Dads Walking won a Special Recognition award at Pride of Britain Awards this year

Wales Online

Locking up kids has serious mental health impacts and contributes to further reoffending

This article contains information on violence experienced by First Nations young people in the Australian carceral system. There are mentions of racist terms, and this piece also mentions self harm, trauma and suicide.

The Conversation

Kilmarnock families to honour loved ones lost to suicide this weekend

The special event takes place this Sunday.

Daily Record

Mental crises excluded from some state abortion exemptions

Abortion bans in several states allow exemptions for life-threatening health emergencies, but they say mental health crises don't count

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Mum arrested after helping stranger travel to carry out assisted suicide at Dignitas

Sue Lawford had only met Sharon Johnston once when she agreed to chaperon her to Dignitas, a nonprofit organisation in Switzerland that provides assisted-suicide to those with terminal or severe illness.

Daily Mirror

Mystery as Vladimir Putin's crony colonel found dead in his office in Russia

Vladimir Putin's colonel, Vadim Boyko, 44, was shot five times and killed in a mystery ‘assassination’ in his office in Vladivostok, Russia - as initial reports claimed that it was a ‘suicide’

Tribune News Service

New allegations in Agape lawsuits include sexual abuse, ‘pandemic’ of suicide attempts

New court filings reveal some of the most brutal allegations of abuse at Agape Boarding School so far, including one former student’s account that two staffers sexually assaulted him.

ABC News

Fight to block pro-suicide website that discusses substance linked to spike in deaths

There's been a spike in deaths in Australia linked to a lethal substance frequently discussed on the offshore forum. Some of those who've died spent time on the site, which experts say has guided suicidal people toward death instead of away from it.

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New figures on veteran suicide released

The latest annual report into ADF suicide rates has revealed female former members had a rate twice as high as the general public.

Wales Online

Head warns of cost of living and mental health impact as 12 pupils attempt suicide since September

The head of the Yorkshire school has made a plea for help

Evening Standard

Margot Robbie style file: charting the star's sartorial rise from Neighbours to Hollywood

The Suicide Squad star has firmly cemented her A-list status not only on screen, but on the red carpet too

The Independent UK

Pakistani judge sentences two Islamic militants to death

A Pakistani court has convicted and sentenced to death two Islamic militants over a suicide attack last year that killed nine Chinese engineers, two paramilitary troops and two other locals in the country’s northwest

The Independent UK

85% of men admit they wouldn’t open up about their struggles with friends in the pub

Abi Jackson finds out more about men’s mental health charity HUMEN’s second ‘Rise Against Suicide’ campaign.

Reuters

Factbox-Deadly Istanbul blast echoes past attacks in Turkey

Turkey blamed Kurdish militants for a blast that killed six people on a busy Istanbul shopping street on Sunday, and police detained a Syrian woman suspected of having planted the bomb among a sweep of 47 arrests.

Daily Record

Scientist calls for Scotland to back 3D printed 'do-it-yourself death pods'

Dr Nitschke has urged a Scots MSP to back the pods, saying "they lead to a peaceful, even euphoric death".

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