(UK) Campaigners call for new homicide law for inciting suicide

A campaign to introduce a new offence of "suicide aggravated by harassment or violence" is to be launched next month.

Calls for a new homicide law have been triggered by growing concern over police failures to investigate cases where women have killed themselves or attempted to do so because of violence and abuse.

Other vulnerable groups would also benefit from the new law, campaigners from Southall Black Sisters argue, including those who jump from high buildings after being jeered by onlookers or who kill themselves after being encouraged over the internet.

An estimated 10 women kill themselves every week after having experienced repeated abuse, according to Home Office statistics. Attempted or successful suicides among Asian women in the UK is more than three times higher, especially among young females between 15 and 24 years old, according to research published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (1992).

full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/19/campaign-new-homicide-law-inciting-suicide

Interesting timing after Dharun Ravi was convicted for invading the privacy of a gay roommate who later committed suicide. Too bad this British law can't be called "Tyler Clementi's Law".