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Manchester Teen Plunges 110 Feet To Death After Having Inappropriate Sexual Thoughts When He Smoked Cannabis

By Angelica N. Sumter
Published on: 03:51 PST, Jun 11, 2015

A Manchester teen fell 110 feet to his death on a railway viaduct after he began having inappropriate sexual thoughts from smoking cannabis since the age of 15, according to Mirror.

Factory worker and adept skateboarder Tyler Smith, 19, of Stockport, began having inappropriate sexual thoughts after he continued to smoke cannabis over the years. He also used various drugs when he attended raves.

Smith was admitted to a mental institution for treatment, but was soon discharged without telling staff that he was experiencing inappropriate thoughts.

Smith thought he could handle it on his own by consuming valiums to suppress the thoughts, but they didn’t work. In a Facebook post, he stated “I feel death calling me.”

Smith later stood on a viaduct and fell 110 feet to his death, disregarding the police officers’ plea to back away. He was rushed to a hospital, but died a week later from his injuries.

“When he was okay, his behavior was very loving. There were no problems or concerns when he wasn’t taking drugs or drinking,” his mother Deborah Cooper stated. “But when he was down and depressed his behavior changed. I noticed a few Facebook status’ that he put up and would ask him what was wrong.”

“He would write things like ‘I feel death calling me’ and he would just tell me that I wouldn’t understand.

I carried on asking him what was wrong and he said ‘if I told you I would have to kill myself.’ Eventually he told me about the inappropriate sexual thoughts.

I tried to talk to him about the thoughts but he didn’t think there was any help for him because of those thoughts he would say he didn’t want to get old. He told me ‘valium was the only thing that got rid of the thoughts he was having.’

He just wanted to stop having those thoughts. That’s why he was always trying to get it.”

“I knew he used drugs when I first met him, and it was right to say that he was using a number of other drugs occasionally. It wasn’t every day, but at the weekend recreationally. In the last year, he stopped taking drugs — not completely though, he was still smoking cannabis,” Smith’s girlfriend, Lucy Roberts, stated.

“I became aware that Tyler was buying Valium just before the accident but now I know that he had been taking it for a few weeks. He confided to me about the inappropriate sexual thoughts he had.”

“He had spoken about wanting to self-harm and if we spoke about our future he would say, ‘Well I won’t be here.’ He was going on about how he didn’t want to be here and wanted to take his life.”

This isn’t Smith’s first time trying to commit suicide. Last year, in October, his friends found him standing at the edge of the ledge saying he didn’t want to live anymore, according to Daily Mail.

However, this time, when he tried to commit suicide, he actually did it, but police believe that it wasn’t intentional.

“He was quite open with me and we had a lengthy conversation. He seemed very agitated so I tried to calm him straight away,” PC Christopher Walker said. “He spoke of his thoughts and said he didn’t want to live like that and said how it affected him every day and went on to say how he was in a relationship that he loved and enjoyed.”

“I told him straight away that I wasn’t going to arrest him and wanted to offer him help. I was quite close to Tyler at this point and could see him very clearly.

I asked him to come on to the other side of the wall but although he nearly lost his footing and had to grab the wall, there was no caution or worry at all.

At one point he said, ‘I nearly went then,’ which made me form the opinion all the time that he just wanted to talk.

At one point he got his own mobile phone out and let go of the wall with both hands. He pressed the button but it didn’t have any power on it. He then turned around and threw his phone down to the ground below.

I was convinced he was going to come over but he leaned forward almost looking for his phone and because he was moving forward he was destabilized and he fell.

It was quite apparent that this was not something that he intended to do.”

[Image courtesy of Spencer Platt / Getty Images]

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