By Mark Ballard for The
Register.
This story has been reproduced with permission.
The BBC reports that police evidence handed to prosecutors did
not amount to a criminal offence in the suicide of Kevin Whitrick,
42, from Wellington, Shropshire. Mr Whitrick had suffered from
depression following a serious car accident which he had not
recovered from.
In a statement, a CPS spokesman said: "We examined all the
evidence passed to us by the police and have concluded that none of
the comments made in the chatroom amounted to a criminal
offence."
At the time of his death, reports said fellow chatroom users on
Paltalk.com had goaded Mr Whitrick into taking his own life.
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