11-year-old Milly’s Instagram suicide post ‘was bolt out of blue’

The mother of Milly Tuomey set up a suicide support group, Healing Untold Grief Group (HUGG), to help others and prevent future loss of life in the wake of her 11-year-old daughter’s death.

The Tuomey family said their daughter’s post to Instagram that she had chosen the day she would die came like a “bolt out of the blue”.

The family, from Dublin, had recently moved back to Ireland from Switzerland and Milly had settled in well. “She was very happy at school and loved it, She had new best friends, there was no bullying, she was not left out,” Ms Tuomey said.