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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Amy-Clare Martin

'My son left one last tragic and powerful letter before he died from suicide'

Grieving families delivered a powerful message to Downing Street to tackle the biggest killer of young people in the UK.

They want action to prevent 17 people dying by suicide every day.

Among them was Ross McCarthy, who went to his GP with severe depression and was put on a six-month waiting list for therapy. He died by suicide two weeks later, aged 31, leaving a fiancee and three-year-old son behind.

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