[Sharon]

6th August 2012:

An elderly man has died after driving his mobility scooter off a cliff at Beachy Head in East Sussex.

Police confirmed the 81-year-old man had been identified as Victor Newton. His body was retrieved by Royal National Lifeboat Institution crews.
A witness to the incident told The Sun, the man kept repeated the words “I’m so tired” before plunging to his death.

“He was very distressed,” Student Tom Lyonnet, 16, told the newspaper. “He said, ‘I just want to go’. We thought he meant go home — we had no idea what he was planning to do.”

Sussex Police received a call from a member of the public at about 2.45pm on Sunday, who said the man and his scooter had fallen over the edge of the cliff-top near the Beachy Head pub in Eastbourne.

A police spokesman said the death of Mr Newton, from Langney, Eastbourne, is not suspicious and that the East Sussex coroner has been informed.

During the first two weeks of July two bodies were recovered from the cliffs at Beachy Head, according to the Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team charity's website.

In June the chaplaincy team was involved in 63 searches and incidents, which resulted in 21 people being rescued.

A statement on its website said: "We were called to 38 searches via Sussex Police. We were also alerted to five searches by members of the public and two by staff of the Beachy Head Pub. During proactive patrols the team came across a further 18 incidents.

"Sadly during the month there were five bodies recovered from the cliffs. One of the deaths was witnessed by our team.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of the deceased."


Heartbreaking

Beachy Head (pictured below) is a UK suicide hotspot but also remarkably beautiful. I've been there a few times for a picnic - and no, I wasn't tempted

[knuggy]

beautiful indeed

[Azimuth]

Wow, that's way up there, would certainly do the job, eh?

[chris50stang]

damn! no pics!

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by chris50stang ↗

damn! no pics!

There's never any good pics from the UK

[BryanXavier]

Good for him! Hat's off to the mo-fo.

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by BryanXavier ↗

Good for him! Hat's off to the mo-fo.

You're so baaaaaaaaaaaad

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by Sharon. ↗

6th August 2012:

An elderly man has died after driving his mobility scooter off a cliff at Beachy Head in East Sussex.

Police confirmed the 81-year-old man had been identified as Victor Newton. His body was retrieved by Royal National Lifeboat Institution crews.
A witness to the incident told The Sun, the man kept repeated the words “I’m so tired” before plunging to his death.

“He was very distressed,” Student Tom Lyonnet, 16, told the newspaper. “He said, ‘I just want to go’. We thought he meant go home — we had no idea what he was planning to do.”

Sussex Police received a call from a member of the public at about 2.45pm on Sunday, who said the man and his scooter had fallen over the edge of the cliff-top near the Beachy Head pub in Eastbourne.

A police spokesman said the death of Mr Newton, from Langney, Eastbourne, is not suspicious and that the East Sussex coroner has been informed.

During the first two weeks of July two bodies were recovered from the cliffs at Beachy Head, according to the Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team charity's website.

In June the chaplaincy team was involved in 63 searches and incidents, which resulted in 21 people being rescued.

A statement on its website said: "We were called to 38 searches via Sussex Police. We were also alerted to five searches by members of the public and two by staff of the Beachy Head Pub. During proactive patrols the team came across a further 18 incidents.

"Sadly during the month there were five bodies recovered from the cliffs. One of the deaths was witnessed by our team.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of the deceased."


Heartbreaking

Beachy Head (pictured below) is a UK suicide hotspot but also remarkably beautiful. I've been there a few times for a picnic - and no, I wasn't tempted

I think you need one of those mobility scoopers to be tempted. There is a definite pattern here.

[Faline]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles ↗

I think you need one of those mobility scoopers to be tempted. There is a definite pattern here.

It says it's a suicide hotspot so i guess many jump there.

[D2D]

Seriously .. Good for him ! 81 isnt a bad innings and in my opinion he went out like a man.. Suicide may be a cowards way out but at that age it beats pissing and shiting yourself waiting for a heart attack. RIP Wings !