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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Susie Beever

Faces of tragic youngsters who left for university - then took their own lives

When Maxine Carrick’s son Oskar left home for his dream degree in film at Sheffield Hallam University, she thought her son would be in safe hands.

The 20-year-old was living with a brain injury from a car accident 18 months earlier, and was listed as a disabled student when he embarked on the course in September 2020.

But tragedy struck several months later in June when the mum-of-five received the worst call imaginable to any parent – Oskar had taken his own life.

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