Transatlantic drama as suicidal teenager is saved by Facebook plea
The life of a British teenager who attempted suicide by taking an overdose was saved following an extraordinary transatlantic police operation involving the Facebook website, the British embassy in Washington, Scotland Yard and Thames Valley police.
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UK teenager ‘saved by Facebook’
A British teenager who took a drugs overdose has been saved after the American girl he was chatting to online raised the alarm.
The 16-year-old boy from Oxfordshire had sent her a message suggesting he intended to commit suicide.
Although she did not know where he lived, calls via the White House and the British Embassy enabled Abingdon police to save the boy’s life.
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Suicidal teenager saved by Facebook friend
A British teenager who attempted to commit suicide was saved by police after a Facebook user on the other side of the Atlantic raised the alarm.
The depressed 16-year-old boy had been chatting to a girl in Maryland, USA, on the social networking website when he told her he was about to kill himself.
Fearing for his life, the American girl alerted her mother, who then sparked a string of emergency messages between Maryland Police, the White House in Washington, the British Embassy in Washington, Scotland Yard and finally Thames Valley Police.
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Facebook friend saves life of suicidal teenager from the other side of the Atlantic
A schoolboy who announced his imminent suicide on Facebook was saved when a friend across the Atlantic in America read his threat and raised the alarm.
The 16-year-old, from Oxford, sent a late-night message on the social networking website to a girl sitting 3,400 miles away at her computer in Maryland.
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