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'Suicide website users encouraged our teen son to drink poison'

'Suicide website users encouraged our teen son to drink poison'

'Suicide website users encouraged our teen son to drink poison'
06 February 2025

Detectives found a "suicide kit" in the family's Southampton home, containing various poisons, pills and other things Vlad had bought after joining the chat group.

"He's researched and understood, and been told where to buy these things and what to buy," says DS Chris Barrow from Hampshire Police. "So, without the website, Vlad wouldn't have been able to put together this set of items and ingredients with which to take his own life."

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