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May 7, 2009

Reading Chronicle rapped for suicide reporting

By Dominic Ponsford

The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint against the Reading Chronicle after it published a story containing excessive detail about the method of a suicide.

Mr and Mrs Marsh of Caversham complained to the PCC over an article published in the paper on 15 January headlined ‘Lucy was a ‘soul in torment'”.

It reported the suicide of the complainants’ daughter – who had taken her own life by eating poisonous leaves.

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