We Just Read:A mental health trust has launched an investigation after a mother told the BBC her son had taken his own life just weeks after “begging for support”.
Tina Jones found out her son Tyran, 30, had died on Mother’s Day, a week after he attempted suicide twice in two days.
The bereaved mother, from Northfield, said she held medics and adult social care teams responsible for his death, and demanded greater safeguarding measures to help others who were struggling.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust expressed sympathy and said they were looking into the case.
Ms Jones, 56, said her son, a “gentle soul”, had lived with autism, anxiety and depression for most of his life, and made at least seven suicide attempts over a period of 10 years, including five in the last year.
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