‘Leanne’s suicide must act as warning’

THE grieving mother of a bullied teenager who killed herself wants her story to act as a warning to other teenagers contemplating suicide.

Thu, 06 Mar, 2008 - 00:00
Paul Kelly

Collette Wolfe, 46, is to appear on RTÉ One’s Would You Believe programme on Sunday to talk about the brief life of her daughter Leanne.

Leanne killed herself on March 23 last year by taking a fatal overdose at the family home in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork. Just 13 days earlier she had turned 18.

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