Teenager who threatened suicide on road prosecuted for third timeA teenager with long-term mental health problems has been prosecuted three times in the last nine months after threatening suicide near busy roads. The 19-year-old woman was pulled to safety from a road by Greater Manchester police officers last Sunday, while still serving a community order for her previous offences. The Labour MP Barbara Keeley, the shadow cabinet member for mental health, told the Manchester Evening News she found the case “deeply worrying”. She said: “This young woman, experiencing a mental health crisis, should have been taken to hospital not held in a police cell. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14.

Source: The Guardian January 16, 2020 15:11 UTC