Posts
A SCHOOLBOY hanged himself after racking up a £420 bill for Xbox games on his parents' credit card.
"He spent £422 over four days on it. He was genuinely shocked at the amount of money."
She added that she had already grounded Henry for two weeks after she caught him having a cigarette at a sleepover.
East Lancashire coroner Richard Taylor reached a conclusion of misadventure as he believed Henry "intended to be found".
Ms Tattersall said she could hear Henry talking out of his upstairs bedroom window to a friend at 4.20pm, but that he did not respond when she called him down for his tea at 5pm.
Henry was discovered by his 16-year-old sister, Holly, when she went upstairs.
Ms Tattersall and neighbours attempted to resuscitate him but Henry died at Royal Blackburn Hospital.
EXPENSIVE: Video games on the Microsoft console can cost as much as £50 each
"I'm glad it's all over now. I'd like to say thank you to
everyone who supported us over the last three months. It's been
amazing," she added after the hearing had concluded.
A Microsoft spokesman said: “We have the deepest sympathy for the family in this tragic matter. Microsoft has robust Parental Control settings that allow parents to control what children do online.
"For example, access to purchase games and other content is switched off automatically for all child accounts on Xbox. We urge parents to review and activate the settings on their family’s Xbox consoles.”
Burnley FC staff at Turf Moor, including manager Sean Dyche, lined Harry Potts Way in Burnley when football fan Henry's funeral cortège made its way to the crematorium on December 5 last year.
The club's fans also held a minute's applause in his memory during their Championship game against Huddersfield Town on November 30.
TRAGIC: Schoolboy Henry Tattersall hanged himself after spending over £400 on Xbox games using his parents' credit cards
Henry Tattersall, 13, posted a haunting Facebook message 15
minutes before he was found dead in his Lancashire home by his sister on
November 25 last year.
The 13-year-old simply wrote: "I'm going to kill myself."
Other messages on Henry's Facebook account referred to Declan Gatenby, a former classmate at Fearns Community Sports College who also committed suicide last July.
At an inquest into his death, Henry's mother Eve Tattersall said
she had spoken to him after discovering he had used a credit card
belonging to her and partner Lee Johnson to buy himself games on the
Microsoft console as a Christmas present to himself.
Confronted by the credit card statement, which had arrived that morning, his mum said: "I personally believe that Henry was very shocked at the amount of money he had spent. He was upset that I was upset.
"He was upset that he had spent the money and we weren't in a position to be able to afford that amount of money.
UPSET: Henry's mother has revealed that her son was upset he had spent so much on the computer games
"He spent £422 over four days on it. He was genuinely shocked at the amount of money."
She added that she had already grounded Henry for two weeks after she caught him having a cigarette at a sleepover.
East Lancashire coroner Richard Taylor reached a conclusion of misadventure as he believed Henry "intended to be found".
Ms Tattersall said she could hear Henry talking out of his upstairs bedroom window to a friend at 4.20pm, but that he did not respond when she called him down for his tea at 5pm.
Henry was discovered by his 16-year-old sister, Holly, when she went upstairs.
Ms Tattersall and neighbours attempted to resuscitate him but Henry died at Royal Blackburn Hospital.
EXPENSIVE: Video games on the Microsoft console can cost as much as £50 each
A Microsoft spokesman said: “We have the deepest sympathy for the family in this tragic matter. Microsoft has robust Parental Control settings that allow parents to control what children do online.
"For example, access to purchase games and other content is switched off automatically for all child accounts on Xbox. We urge parents to review and activate the settings on their family’s Xbox consoles.”
Burnley FC staff at Turf Moor, including manager Sean Dyche, lined Harry Potts Way in Burnley when football fan Henry's funeral cortège made its way to the crematorium on December 5 last year.
The club's fans also held a minute's applause in his memory during their Championship game against Huddersfield Town on November 30.
TRAGIC: Schoolboy Henry Tattersall hanged himself after spending over £400 on Xbox games using his parents' credit cards
The 13-year-old simply wrote: "I'm going to kill myself."
Other messages on Henry's Facebook account referred to Declan Gatenby, a former classmate at Fearns Community Sports College who also committed suicide last July.
Confronted by the credit card statement, which had arrived that morning, his mum said: "I personally believe that Henry was very shocked at the amount of money he had spent. He was upset that I was upset.
"He was upset that he had spent the money and we weren't in a position to be able to afford that amount of money.
UPSET: Henry's mother has revealed that her son was upset he had spent so much on the computer games
No comments:
Post a Comment