There are no suspicious circumstances.'Ī neighbour, who declined to be named, said: 'He was always on Paltalk – he showed me the site last year. South Wales Police said: 'We can confirm the sudden death of a 43-year-old man at a property on July 25. However, users did eventually get a message to the police, who found the man's body in his flat on Wednesday. It is believed the alarm may not have been raised with staff at Paltalk while the suicide was taking place. The first British man to commit suicide on the site was Kevin Whitrick, 42, in 2007 The US-based website allows users to talk to others via video, text or voice chats.īut fellow members said it wasn't long before he was 'bullied mercilessly'. It is understood the man originally started using Paltalk because he was lonely and depressed and wanted to make new friends. The shocking case yesterday prompted campaigners to call for better protection for vulnerable adults online.
The trolls – including some based in Britain – encouraged him to go through with it, saying: 'Why don't you just do it? Your life isn't worth it.' The victim, who had not been named last night, set up a webcam and beamed his suicide to other users around the world as online bullies taunted him. The 43-year-old builder from Cardiff hanged himself on Paltalk, a controversial chat site where users can stream video to strangers. A unnamed builder has become the third Brit to livestream his own suicide on PaltalkĪ father has killed himself live on the internet after being goaded by cruel trolls, becoming the third Briton to broadcast their death on the same website.
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