A British teenager’s suicide note on Facebook sparked a transatlantic rescue mission which saved his life.
The 16-year-old boy’s threat to kill himself, sent to a girl 3,600 miles away, in Maryland, America, was the starting point for an extraordinary race against time.
When she read his private post at 11.30pm on Wednesday night his American friend told her parents, who called the local state police.
The only details they were given were his name and the fact he went to school in Oxfordshire.