:00:00. > :00:00.report from South Africa, on the impact of the long-running Oscar
:00:00. > :00:17.Pistorius And now the news for the East
:00:18. > :00:18.Midlands, I'm Anne Davies. A coroner has recorded a suhcide
:00:19. > :00:21.A coroner has recorded a suicide verdict on a Leicestershire teenager
:00:22. > :00:24.whose death sparked a huge debate about online bullying. 14`year`old
:00:25. > :00:26.about online bullying. 14`ydar`old Hannah Smith was found hanged at her
:00:27. > :00:28.Hannah Smith was found hangdd at her home in Lutterworth last year.
:00:29. > :00:30.home in Lutterworth last ye`r. Today's inquest was told there was
:00:31. > :00:33.Today's inquest was told thdre was no evidence that she'd been
:00:34. > :00:37.victimised by cyber bullies. Victoria Hicks reports.
:00:38. > :00:41.Today's inquest heard how H`nnah Smith was a bright, polite popular
:00:42. > :00:42.teenager but her father, David Smith, seen arriving at today's
:00:43. > :00:44.Smith, seen arriving at tod`y's inquest on the far right, told how
:00:45. > :00:46.his daughter had been bullied inquest on the far right, told how
:00:47. > :00:48.his daughter had been bullied from the age of 12 by different children,
:00:49. > :00:53.mainly because of her eczema. the age of 12 by different children,
:00:54. > :00:57.mainly because of her eczema. Hannah Smith was found hanged in hdr
:00:58. > :01:01.bedroom by her sister in August last year. At the time her father said
:01:02. > :01:07.the 14`year`old had killed herself after being bullied online on the
:01:08. > :01:12.social networking site, Ask FM. He called for the owners of thd site to
:01:13. > :01:14.face criminal charges. That led to a complex police investigation which
:01:15. > :01:16.found messages on Hannah Smhth's account which today were described
:01:17. > :01:22.as vile and amounted to crilinal as vile and amounted to crilinal
:01:23. > :01:26.harassment. On investigating those postings, the police found the only
:01:27. > :01:32.person who could have made them was Hannah Smith herself. The court
:01:33. > :01:34.heard that neither the police nor Hannah Smith's school had been aware
:01:35. > :01:35.Hannah Smith's school had bden aware of the bullying or self harm
:01:36. > :01:36.Hannah Smith's school had been aware of the bullying or self harl which
:01:37. > :01:41.of the bullying or self harm which she had spoken about to her family.
:01:42. > :01:44.Today they left the court upset and didn't want to be interviewdd. The
:01:45. > :01:47.didn't want to be interviewed. The court heard evidence of Hannah
:01:48. > :01:48.Smith's suicidal thoughts and intentions but summing up the
:01:49. > :01:49.coroner, Catherine Mason, said intentions but summing up the
:01:50. > :01:53.coroner, Catherine Mason, said her school and her family could not have
:01:54. > :01:55.known what she was about to do that morning and on hearing all the facts
:01:56. > :01:57.the coroner recorded a verdhct morning and on hearing all the facts
:01:58. > :02:05.the coroner recorded a verdict of suicide.
:02:06. > :02:10.Earlier I spoke to Jon Brown who's from the children's charity, the
:02:11. > :02:16.NSPCC. I began by asking him how common are cases like this?
:02:17. > :02:19.We're not aware at the NSPCC of a case like this previously where
:02:20. > :02:22.someone has sent themselves bullying messages. It clearly indicates a
:02:23. > :02:26.high degree of upset and distress on the part of Hannah and clearly it
:02:27. > :02:28.seems she was using a social networking site as a platform for a
:02:29. > :02:30.cry for help. It almost seels networking site as a platform for a
:02:31. > :02:32.cry for help. It almost seems quite cry for help. It almost seels quite
:02:33. > :02:38.a dangerous thing that somebody in that state uses the Internet.
:02:39. > :02:40.Increasingly, children and xoung Increasingly, children and xoung
:02:41. > :02:43.people are living significant proportions of their lives online
:02:44. > :02:44.and the difference between life online and off`line is increasingly
:02:45. > :02:47.online and off`line is incrdasingly becoming kind of quite blurred and
:02:48. > :02:48.quite irrelevant, I think, increasingly for children and young
:02:49. > :02:55.people. In a sense it was perhaps people. In a sense it was perhaps
:02:56. > :02:58.quite understandable and quite normal that Hannah would take to
:02:59. > :03:05.online to ventilate her feelings of upset and distress. Very briefly,
:03:06. > :03:06.upset and distress. Very brhefly, where parents might normally pick
:03:07. > :03:10.where parents might normallx pick things up in real life, what should
:03:11. > :03:13.they be doing to make sure their children aren't expressing their
:03:14. > :03:17.cries for help online, which they are unaware of? It's really
:03:18. > :03:20.important to try to keep channels of important to try to keep ch`nnels of
:03:21. > :03:25.communication open between parents and children. Parents need to feel
:03:26. > :03:27.enabled and supported to know how to have that conversation with their
:03:28. > :03:31.children, how to keep that conversation open to ensure they are
:03:32. > :03:39.OK, they are feeling OK, whdther that is online or off`line. I think
:03:40. > :03:42.it's also a big important role for industry, for social networking
:03:43. > :03:45.sites to keep an eye on what is going on on their sites and for a
:03:46. > :03:47.really strongly lead from government, as well. Indeed, Jon we
:03:48. > :03:50.will leave it there, thank xou very will leave it there, thank you very
:03:51. > :03:53.much. The body of an RAF officer from
:03:54. > :03:55.Leicestershire, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, has
:03:56. > :03:59.helicopter crash in Afghanistan has been repatriated. Flight Lieutenant
:04:00. > :04:00.Rakesh Chauhan was among five servicemen who
:04:01. > :04:03.their Lynx helicopter crashed in what the Ministry of Defencd
:04:04. > :04:03.their Lynx helicopter crashdd in what the Ministry of Defence has
:04:04. > :04:06.what the Ministry of Defencd has described as a tragic accident.
:04:07. > :04:14.Quentin Rayner reports. Shortly after 1:30pm this afternoon,
:04:15. > :04:17.the servicemen came home. As a C`17 transport plane flew in frol Camp
:04:18. > :04:23.Bastion and touched down at Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire. Slowly and
:04:24. > :04:25.with great care and dignity, each of the five coffins were carridd off
:04:26. > :04:29.the aircraft by a bearing party. the aircraft by a bearing p`rty
:04:30. > :04:31.Investigations continue into how they lost their lives when a
:04:32. > :04:31.Investigations continue into how they lost their lives when ` Lynx
:04:32. > :04:36.they lost their lives when a Lynx helicopter they were travelling in
:04:37. > :04:38.crashed last month. Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan w`s an
:04:39. > :04:39.crashed last month. Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan was an RAF
:04:40. > :04:44.intelligence officer whose family run a sari business in Leicester.
:04:45. > :04:44.intelligence officer whose family run a sari business in Leicdster. He
:04:45. > :04:45.run a sari business in Leicester. He was described as charismatic, loyal
:04:46. > :06:36.and an exceptional officer. capital. Don't miss it on your local
:06:37. > :06:41.BBC radio station from 6pm. We've had some fairly pleasant we`ther
:06:42. > :06:45.over the last couple of days, good timing for the bank holiday at the
:06:46. > :06:48.best is now behind us as it is getting wetter. Tomorrow's rain will
:06:49. > :06:50.be in the form of showers btt getting wetter. Tomorrow's rain will
:06:51. > :06:54.be in the form of showers but there be in the form of showers but there
:06:55. > :06:58.will be some brighter bits. We have seen few showers this evening and
:06:59. > :07:02.are few more will come in in the early hours of the morning. The
:07:03. > :07:06.breeze. To pick up. It is a mild night and temperatures down to nine
:07:07. > :07:09.or 10 degrees. Tomorrow, bright night and temperatures down to nine
:07:10. > :07:10.or 10 degrees. Tomorrow, brhght and breezy start. There will be showers
:07:11. > :07:12.around first thing and those breezy start. There will be showers
:07:13. > :07:20.around first thing and thosd may well merge to become quite a wet
:07:21. > :07:24.day. The best chance of any bright weather will be across southern part
:07:25. > :07:29.of Leicestershire and it will be cooler thanks to the breeze and 15
:07:30. > :07:32.or 16 degrees. The outlook stays pretty unsettled. That is it. Good
:07:33. > :07:37.night. on Friday as well. I rather wet
:07:38. > :07:46.start the weekend and it will be blustery during the week. As you may
:07:47. > :07:54.have just heard, our weather is taking a turn for the worse. Some
:07:55. > :08:01.lovely weather on the Spanish Costas. We leave that behind and
:08:02. > :08:02.find low-pressure close by the British Isles. Behind