Coroner warns of chatroom dangers

A BRITISH coroner yesterday called for greater public vigilance to combat the danger of internet chatrooms at the inquest into a man who leapt to his death after meeting another man at a chatroom called Assisted Suicide Holidays.

East Sussex coroner Alan Craze said greater police resources should be assigned in a bid to end the threat to the young and vulnerable from “anonymous” criminals who live in a “fantasy world”.

Michael Gooden, 35, from Camberwell, south London, arranged to meet Louis Gillies at Beachy Head cliffs near Eastbourne, a notorious suicide spot.