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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Neil Shaw & Charlie Duffield

Anorexic boy, 14, locked his room and scheduled email telling mum he'd killed himself

A 14-year-old boy with both anorexia and autism locked himself in his room and scheduled an email to his mum telling her he'd taken his own life, an inquest heard.

The family of Henry Tucker had been finding it difficult to access support for him because the NHS was overburdened during the coronavirus pandemic.

The inquest was held two days short of the first anniversary of Henry’s death, reports Grimsby Live.

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