16-year-old boy left note for family before standing in front of train

A “sensitive and caring” 16-year-old schoolboy was “laughing and joking” with his sister over TikTok videos hours before taking his own life by standing in front of a train. Elliott Jones had given his family no indication he was planning this, an inquest at Winchester Coroners’ Court heard.

But after his mother went to the supermarket he left the family home in Waverley Road, Fordingbridge, to take a bus to Pokesdown railway station, then a train to Ashurst. A train driver saw him standing with his back to him on the tracks, and although he did “everything he possibly could” Elliott was struck and killed instantly.

Mum Carolyn Jones told the hearing that on the day he died, 10th March this year, he seemed in a go

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