MP calls for teenage suicide inquiry
Jim Sheridan, the member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, wants an investigation
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By Matt Hallam. |  |
Tuesday, 06, Oct 2009 09:50
By inthenews.co.uk staff.
An MP has called for an inquiry into the deaths of two teenage girls who jumped from a bridge near Glasgow in an alleged 'suicide pact'.
The two girls, Neve Lafferty, 15, and Georgina Rowe, 14, were reportedly holding hands when they threw themselves off the Erskine Bridge, into the River Clyde on Sunday night.
Now an MP, Jim Sheridan, the member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, wants an investigation into how and why Neve and Georgina were able to leave a young person's unit unsupervised.
He said: "It is important to see both an internal and police inquiry to answer questions and explain the events.
"People here really are in shock that something so terrible could happen.
"My heart goes out to all those touched by this."
The girls attended the independently owned Good Shepherd Centre in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, where they were among nine live-in residents at the centre's open unit. Mr Sheridan added that it is a "fine organisation".
The Telegraph reports Neve was still in mourning for her boyfriend who died last year.
The newspaper says her boyfriend is understood to have died from a methadone overdose. She was also reported to have witnessed her father, Paul Lafferty, stab a neighbour to death while defending himself from a vicious attack.
He suffered 17 stab wounds and was cleared of murder in 2006 after claiming he acted in self-defence.