Boy 12, Killed himself over sony playstation

[DavidAlizée]

15 July 2005
GARY, 12, HANGS HIMSELF AFTER MUM CONFISCATES HIS PLAYSTATION


By Jan Disley
A BOY aged 12 who was sent to his room and banned from using the PlayStation hanged himself.

Gary Lloyd had been told off by mum Gillian after having a detention at school, an inquest heard yesterday.
She later went to look in on him because no noise was coming from the room and found him hanging by his school tie from the top of a bunk bed.
Recording an accidental death verdict, deputy coroner Christopher Welton told the hearing in Stockport, Greater Manchester, he believed Gary was playing an attention-seeking prank that went "disastrously wrong".

The inquest heard Gary, who went to Werneth Secondary in Stockport, had been smiling when he left school.
Teacher Pradeep De, who supervised his detention given for not doing his homework and being late to school, said Gary was happy after seeing a former teacher. But when he got home late Gary argued with his mum.


She went to look in on him after making tea and found him hanging. She and partner Leon Ball lifted him down and she tried to resuscitate him while Leon dialled 999.


Gary was declared dead later at hospital.
The inquest heard Mr Ball had once attempted suicide and Mr Welton said Gary saw it as a good way to attract attention.
Describing the boy as a "loveable rogue", he said, "he'd had his PlayStation taken away and he'd been chastised for being naughty.


"He'd seen a situation with his mother's partner that had attracted attention to him after he'd had a bit of a problem.
"He knew his mother would be coming up soon to find him.
"Sometimes it can be very easy to kill yourself with a ligature, if it's tied in a certain way it can happen very quickly and unexpectedly.""
After the inquest, Mrs Lloyd, from Stockport, said Gary, the eldest of her three children, was a very happy boy.


His death on October 13 last year was "a bolt from the blue".
Werneth Secondary said his death was met with "great sadness and disbelief".

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i couldnt scan the paper, it is not working for some reason

I feel ever so sorry for his mother, i guess emotions always run high at that age when you don't get what you want. Things obvously got out of hand, and it was too late to stop it.. poor little boy.

[Melodramatic]

Perhaps it runs deeper than that. It didn't say that his mother's "partner" was his bio daddy so it could have something to do with that too. Or perhaps it was just a stupid prank gone awry. Either way, I feel sad for him & his family.

[PayBays]

It's a sad story...but who knows what that kid might have been thinking

[DavidAlizée]

I think he just wanted attention.. i mean, when we were all that age, we all wanted attention sometimes, you know.. "teach your mother a lesson" , in this case, he tried to "teach her a lesson" for her not allowing him to play on his PS2. I don't think he meant to kill himself, maybe just to show the intent was there, as he knew his mother would be checking on him soon. It went badly wrong...

[Bondius]

I think that's stupid. There's no earthly reason to kill yourself. We all have our "God! I wish I'd die!" moments but NOTHING is worth taking your life. Sad, real sad.

[DavidAlizée]

Your missing the point man, he did not intend to kill himself. He is only 12 years old, things got out of hand, and it happened.

[Bondius]

At 12 years he shouldn't even try to impress his mother that way. Crying, running around and so on might have been better.

[DavidAlizée]

when someone that young gets hyper, anything can happen. Temper tantrums at that age causes minds to think about revenge. What is the worst thing i could do, to hurt my mother to get my own back. "pretend to kill myself so she freaks out, when she sees me.. feels sorry for me, hugs me, then we make up" I guess it happened in such a way, that he tied the knot, and in such a way, he slipped. We don't really know the ins and outs, no doubt this case is about attention. Yes, it is so sad.. but at that age, no-one can really blame anyone. If it was teens, 14+ than yes, we can say it is very irrisponsable.

[PayBays]

The boy was psychical attracted to the PS.The PS was his life,like Alizée is our life,our future.If Alizée would die,some people will hung them up.I think the kid was to obsessed.Calling this a prank is just sick.The 12th year old boy was on his way to becoming intelligent and stuff.A boy from 12 knows he can impress his mom,but he knew what the trouble was.

As myself,i have been thinking about this a lot.I know what went up in his mind.But i was 10,and i did know the risks.Back in my time i was bullied a lot.My mom said i had to take care myself.I sometimes thought that "faking" dying could be helpfull.But i acted that i cut myself in my thongue and my mom wasn't happy with that.

I know excatly what he was going to do,and he knew the risks.I never have done that.If i have done it,i won't be sitting here and typing to you

[DavidAlizée]

I can't agree with you, saying his PS2 was his life. It is the wrong context totally.. That fact of this case is, his mother took something away that he enjoyed, so he wanted to get his own back, by hurting his mother.... and it went wrong. I agree with the court and deputy coroner Christopher Welton.

[PayBays]

I can't agree with you, saying his PS2 was his life. It is the wrong context totally.. That fact of this case is, his mother took something away that he enjoyed, so he wanted to get his own back, by hurting his mother.... and it went wrong.

Yup excatly,but he knew what he was going to do.He knew that,one some kinda way,how to attract his mother attention.Badly for him it went wrong

[D13U]

That really is quite sad. And by "sad," I don't mean I feel sorry for him. I mean that's pathetic, truly just pathetic... I'm a "gamer" more than anyone I know, or ever have know, but I would never go that far, and I've been banned from my games plenty, when I was young as well. There has to be something deeper to it, either something they're not yet revealing, or something that hasn't been brought out yet.

To \/ - That's why I put "when I was young as well," we all wanted attention when we were little, but there has to be more behind it to attempt/falsely attempt suicide in order to get it.

[DavidAlizée]

why doesnt anyone read what happened instead of looking at the title lol?

He did not mean to kill himself, it was just a way to get attention, to teach his mother a lesson, " to get his own back" to make her feel "shock" .. but it all went wrong, instead of pretending to hang himself, it actually happened, it was just a mistake.

[PayBays]

Yeah and a big mistake.But i still think D13U also has it at the right and.You must be really crazy if you try to get her attention like this.

It would be like a fan saw Alizée on the streets and he's gonna cut himself with a knife if she doesn't say hi...the world is sick

[D13U]

I'm glad somone agrees with me. Really.. it's not not right. The world has enough deaths per day as it is. Even when I was depressed (that chemical imbalance in your brain thing.. whatever) I never even thought of going this far. Though I have to admit, I did go through a short stint of masochism.

[Steve]

Thats odd how could someone 'Accidently Commmit Suicide' Even if he did try and give her a scare that is such a pathetic act, imagine his mother if he had pulled off this stunt?? She would have been such an emotional mess. i know my mother would have been if I had Played such a stunt

[D13U]

Well, at 12 years old you don't really think about that. You think about what you want and how to get it by the fastest means possible. I still stand by my opinion that there was something else to it, perhaps the step-father (or soon to be, something of the sort).

[350km/h_no_problem]

very sad....what can i say......i had friend dieing....it`s so nasty
one of my friends died in a car accident and u know when...........right on the midle of the crystmas night.........the steering axle punched his loungs dieing by sufocating........so sad
another one died on a motorcicle accident because he was driving too fast(police said he had 190km/h when he hit a car). at his funeral he was beried in a bag so nobody could see him...........

[Emmerdale001]

Rent the movie Heathers. In it, Winona Ryder fakes suicide by hanging herself. She just did it in a way that looks like she has been hung but is still alive.

This person apparently tried something similar, but it went wrong.

[Ayan]

It's weird someone would kill themselves over a Playstation2.
Killing themselves because of an X-box is understandable. But Playstation2? Please...

Great story though, I'm sure it sells. And there will probably be a whole lot of people who blame the parents, the kid, Sony etc. But us blaming them changes nothing. They should blame themselves though. If a kid does something like that then he must have had much deeper hidden problems yet noone seemed to notice them or care for that matter. Hopefully this will be an example for other parents.

[Mordecai]

from southpark: "Don't care Don't care Don't care"

[tern]

It was better back in the days when kids didn't have emotions and hurt feelings.

[gaston_alizee]

It's a sad story...but who knows what that kid might have been thinking
Yeah, 100% agreed.

[Ned]

Well, here's my opinion. I think that his mother didn't pay enough attention to his education, I mean we all know how kids are these days, with all the video games. When I was a kid I kinda didn't have all of those. I was having fun the 'old-fashioned way', if you know what I mean. And yes, I agree with David on the attention part. Kids do want more attention then the rest of the people, not that adults don't want attention, but kids want more, and that's a part of who they are.