Midland UK Suicide Linked To US Nurse Internet Forum Predator

Source  : The Story by Fionnaula Bourke March 8th 2009

fionnaula.bourke@sundaymercury.net

ADR's Take Below :

Coventry is but a "stone's throw away"   from Birmingham  UK , they often say locally .. Its 20 miles in reality ..

Just before his suicide by hanging,  Mark Dryborough  aged 19 from Coventry and who was mentally unstable had been using his computer accessing to a Suicide chat room/ Forum .

The man that is being linked to his alleged  "assisted or encouraged"  death is Melchert-Dinkel - a nurse currently suspended from his job in the US .   Minnesota police are looking into his computer communications and suicides of people that he had been allegedly communicating with  and offering advice about ropes and where to place efficient knots around the neck .

Another person from the Midlands (near Birmingham UK) is Kat Lowe . She passed her concerns to the police in the West Midlands after she experienced suicide-chat with "Falcon Girl"  - who admitted to her finally he was a man . She also obtained pictures of him from the web  and handed those over to police and a journalist. It is allegedly Melchert Dinkel .

The Birmingham UK UserWatch Blog  has run its own story about this and linked it to concerns about another Forum .  It also has its own growing dossier of Forums that are running mental health risks and they are populated by people that are unstable, some of whom are posing with some authority over matters of emotions and the mind ... Perhaps they have that right to some degree - but Users of Forums also had better beware of how things can go very wrong and how people can die when triggered by more instability offered to them as friendly "advice" ...

Mental Health Forums have no accountability processes, no complaints processes , and identities are concealed of people there who set themselves up as having some authority they may be overstating ..

Just be really careful eh ?

Shamefully societies everywhere are not creating empowerment and broader supply sides of therapies which fit very pained people which those people  can drive some of the quality of through aided purchasing power.  Assisted Patient Choice of therapy treatments is not the case in the UK  . At  best what is created is another State therapy (CBT) "lid on it" and that pressure drives the need to express and talk even in risky Internet Forums.

Places to talk about pain on the internet that is so serious that it threatens the life of a person can be a gamble . You can lose like Mark

God Bless,   Mark .