Examination of Witness (Question Numbers
300-302)
MR TIM
FULLER
19 MARCH 2009
Q300 Janet Anderson: When you say
the meeting was in May, that was a long time after this started.
Do you think they should have done that sooner?
Mr Fuller: Maybe so. Maybe it
should have been done after suicide number five. There was another
incident a week or two after Angeline and then others cropped
up during the subsequent months. A lot of work has been done.
At the time everybody was at a bit of a loss. The Health Service
was at a loss because this was going on in our community. Why
are these people not being helped? Anyone in a normal state of
mind does not take their life so what have we missed? The press
had built their story from these incidents and it was obviously
mushrooming. It is great if you have a story that you can add
incidents to. From the point of building a story it is great because
it keeps it going but it is a very personal and sensitive story.
It is not about old buildings falling down or car crashes; it
is something sensitive and horrible. Maybe the PCC could have
done something earlier. Maybe somebody did not raise the flag.
Q301 Paul Farrelly: Have you looked
back over the coverage from when it started before your daughter's
death at all?
Mr Fuller: The only thing I have
done is try to see whether there were Coroner's Inquest reports.
Occasionally I have looked over the internet to see if there is
anything.
Q302 Paul Farrelly: From your experience
was there one newspaper driving this?
Mr Fuller: I could not say. I
have not looked at it in that depth. The thing is that every newspaper
carried the article. I have not focused in on the names of others
and done any research to see if there is any pattern. Occasionally
I type my daughter's name into a search engine and the same articles
come up again right back from last year. Probably in four or five
years' time they will still be there because that is how the internet
is. You put something on there and unless it is physically deleted
it is there forever. I must say most of the pictures have gone
but there are a few still around. When that other incident happened
with the girl who died some weeks after, I felt an affiliation
with her relatives knowing that picture was out. Before coming
here today I thought I will see if I can find that article to
back up what I was going to say but I could not find it. I could
not find the picture. I can still see it in my mind. I thought
that is good it is not there. I would like to think three months
ago I would have found it and some work has been done and that
is the result. I am quite impressed that I could not find the
picture. I cannot say that anything specifically has driven it
but it is a good point that somebody maybe leading it but I have
not done any research.
Chairman: That is probably all we have
to cover. Can I thank you for coming and talking to us.
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