A father has criticised a leading university for doing too little to support his son in the months before he killed himself. Ross McFarlane, a law student at Exeter University who had worked with Oliver Letwin, the Tory MP, during the week of the EU referendum, hanged himself in March last year at the age of 20 after returning from a house party. He had phoned the university’s wellbeing service four months earlier, an inquest was told yesterday. The student told the service that he felt low, had little energy and was anxious, but had no further contact with support services. His father Rory told the coroner: “I would have loved to have had that phone call [wellbeing] received — I had no idea.”Outside…

Source: The Times May 17, 2018 23:02 UTC