Ghouls Took Photos Of Dying Suicide Girl - Yahoo! News UK
A coroner has blasted members of the public who took mobile phone photos of a dying teenage girl after she jumped from a multi-storey car park.
West Dorset coroner Michael Johnston said that the ghoulish bystanders made him "worried about humanity".
Robyn Nixon, 15, had suffered "psychological bullying" and jumped from the top floor of the car park in Weymouth, Dorset, on April 11 this year.
She had been excluded from a group of friends and had also broken up from her boyfriend of seven months in the days before her death, an inquest heard.
The hearing was told how Robyn had been speaking to her ex-boyfriend, now 17, in the minutes before she jumped to her death.
He had been in the town with his new girlfriend and they walked to the car park after Robyn telephoned him, concerned for her safety.
Just moments after the pair arrived, Robyn ended the telephone call and stepped from the edge of the building.
Her ex-boyfriend rushed to her side but she suffered massive head injuries and was declared dead in hospital shortly afterwards.
Mr Johnston praised the actions of passers-by who tried to help Robyn, but he said some had acted "in a shabby way" by taking photographs as she lay dying.
"You can only presume something like this has never happened to them, but it does make you worried about humanity," he said.
He added: "This was a child's life and you were taking photos on your mobile phones.
"I'm sorry, but I think that is horrid and the people who did that ought to be ashamed of themselves."
So. Would you have filmed it or taken photos or tried to help?
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