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Bridgend suicide incidents. At least 26 suicides of young people were reported in Bridgend County Borough in South Wales in 2007 and 2008. [1] Reports speculated that a "suicide cult" was to blame, though police found no evidence to link the cases together. Of the suicides, all but one died from hanging.
Jan 29, 2017 · The first recorded Bridgend suicide in 2007 when the spate started, was 18-year-old Dale Crole in January. His friend David Dilling, 19, took his life six weeks later, and another close friend...
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Feb 27, 2009 · Over the past two years, dozens of teens and young adults in the Welsh county borough of Bridgend have killed themselves, almost all by hanging, in an epidemic that became global news. Was it...
1996 and 2006, around 300 people died each year by suicide in Wales, a rate that has remained relatively constant.4 Figures show that Bridgend has higher overall rates of suicides among males (25.2 per 100,000) than females.Female deaths in the borough are 4.6 per 100,000.The highest number of female suicides in Wales,
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Feb 24, 2008 · But figures obtained by Wales on Sunday clearly show that for young men aged between 15 and 24, Bridgend has the highest rate of suicide in Wales. And even more worryingly, these figures...
Sep 15, 2022 · People can sometimes want to kill themselves in bleak places where they feel trapped. But the large number of suicides in Bridgend that year was particularly unusual. That part—the 26 total suicides—speaks to more than just “damp mists” and “long winter months” and the occasional random suicide.
Jan 1, 2012 · Abstract. In January 2008, the south Wales borough of Bridgend became the focus of local, national and international media attention due to a spate of suicides in the region.
