Allow families to prevent press reporting of a loved one’s suicide

To allow the family of someone who takes their own life the right to request reporting restrictions during any inquiry or inquest into their death. Press intrusion has devastating effects on those left behind and is not in the public interest.

This petition closed on 18 Sep 2020 with 482 signatures


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Families bereaved by suicide need protecting, inquests take place up to a year after the death and the family have gone through the bereavement support process and acceptance. Anything mentioned in the coroners court is recorded by the media and printed without the permission of families in the local press, along with the address of the deceased, names of family members and sometimes details of the families private life. The Government needs to give the families privacy to grieve


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