Student commits suicide by throwing himself out of 10th floor window
An unnamed male student has committed suicide by throwing himself out of a tenth floor window in Middlesbrough, England.
The 24-year-old threw himself out of an open window in Middlesbrough Tower, the main building of the University of Teesside. The drop was 120 feet high. Police and ambulance were called to the scene at around 18:30. The police are currently trying to contact the student’s family, who do not live locally. The police have said that they are not treating the death as suspicious. A post-mortem is to be carried out today.
The building was open at the time and therefore anyone could have walked in, although CCTV was in operation. Students and staff who were in Middlesbrough Tower at the time were forced to leave the building at around 19:30 and give contact details to the police on duty.
One woman, who left the building minutes after the incident said, “There were three security guards and I think a cleaner near the body. They were obviously the first on the scene – and one of the security guards had already called an ambulance.”
A spokesman for the university, which caters for 9,700 students, said, “We can confirm we are assisting the police following the tragic incident at the university campus last night. We will give more information as soon as we are able.”
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I’m disappointed that this site had decided against reporting facts-it is not known whether this was a suicide, therefore the headline and first papagraph of this article are purely speculative.
This is a tragic death, and has shocked the whole University regardless of whether they knew him or not, this articles’ content is extremely insensitive to all those involved, particularly his family- which “the police are currently trying to contact”.
I have attempted to contact someone regarding this articles’ content, but have found no address on the site, and felt leaving a comment was most appropriate.
If it was another female, and females were five times as likely as males to commit suicide, we would be invited to a special program of some sort to ask “Why is it that women are 5 times as likely to kill themselves… must be proof that women are “oppressed” and stressed.