Caroline Flack found dead

On 13th December Caroline was on TV, the day after the UK General Election, a Labour party MP, ripping into Jeremy Corybn for his failures. Then there was a controversy where she had a row with her fellow Labour MP Emily Thornberry which became visceral on live TV.

Later in the day a report came in that Caroline was arrested for having been involved in some argument where police had be called. I though my god this Brexit think is getting completely out of hand. Politicians are now physically fighting with each other, even women. This Brexit think is getting out of hand.

My mistake was that I had confused the Labour MP Caroline Flint with the TV host Caroline Flack (who I'd never heard of).

I'm not getting involved in the debate because i know how this feels. "A permanent solution to a temporary problem:. I hope she rests in peace.

The more I think about it, the less I am inclined to blame the media.

You just have to look at the coverage of the Paddy Jackson rape trial and the endless revelations coming out of it (I know the girl involved went through the mill as well). And what's worse, the amateur law experts on social media who just assumed he was guilty. He had to leave the country to get a playing contract and will never play for Ireland again. Quite the ordeal. Point is: the media will paint a famous person in a bad light if they are accused of breaking the law.

Its 100% an underlying mental health issue with Caroline. Unfortunately, her behaviour became somewhat erratic over the last year.

But thats the thing with suicide- a lot of the time people want to apportion some external factor as blame. There isn't enough discussion about why it is so common, and mental health is still a taboo subject, certainly in Ireland.

BattleCorp wrote: »

And if I told the police you diddled me when I was a kid, would that make it a fact? No, it wouldn't. It would be an allegation.

He made an allegation against Ms. Flak.

Until a court rules on it, it's just an allegation.

By the way, I don't doubt she did hit him with the lamp, but that still doesn't make it a fact.

The police also had body cam evidence as well as her admitting what she did.
You can dress it up anyway you like but she was an abuser.

Christ I think if Jimmy Saville was still around today people would be all RIP and no mention of the vile and depraved things he did.
My Facebook is full of all these girls going blah blah Caroline but every other day they’re tweeting and sharing out about physical abuse and don’t be silent. So two faced.

Whether she is guilty of the alleged offences or not, the media have absolutely hounded her for the last two months.
It has been relentless, the tabloids and gutter press didn’t just report on what she’s been accused of, they targeted her over and over again.

It was borderline harassment the last few weeks, and between the media, the comments under articles, Twitter and the DM’s she was no doubt getting on instagram, is this even surprising? There is only so many abusive comments a person can take.

I’m loathe to agree with Pierse Morgan but the woman had lost everything, privately, publicly, professionally and personally.
Her career was over.
She was humiliated and torn to shreds by both the general public and by the press.
Some might say deservedly so, if she was guilty of what she was accused of.
But I don’t think what she allegedly did warranted that kind of vicious treatment at all.

I have no issue with any media posting factual, verified news stories.
I don’t even really have an issue with them publishing what she was accused of, when it initially came to light. But until a trial had taken place, they had no right to persistently target her and repeatedly publish the accusations over and over again for crimes she hadn’t even been found guilty of yet.
It was a trial by media and there has to be accountability for things like this.

The virtue signalling from the ‘thoughts and prayers’ celebrity crowd has been stomach turning today.
I saw some of the journalists from The Sun sharing condolence, which is the height of hypocrisy when they’ve practically been running a hate campaign against her the last few months.

It has definitely made me rethink the media I consume, the articles I click on etc. I don’t want to support those vultures in any way and I’m going to try to be more conscious of what I click on.

May the poor woman rest in peace and finally be free from the pain she has been in.
It’s just really tragic all round for all involved.

Was it a big heavy lamp or like a cheapo light thing you'd get in the pound shop? Must buy the star...see what they say.

she must have been under severe distress to do something like that....pending court case and the media attention surrounding it was obviously too much for her to bear

RIP

I cannot understand how there was still a case pending when the boyfriend withdrew cooperation with it. Do they not need the complainant on board to proceed? Had she entered a plea at the preliminary hearing?

Larbre34 wrote: »

I cannot understand how there was still a case pending when the boyfriend withdrew cooperation with it. Do they not need the complainant on board to proceed? Had she entered a plea at the preliminary hearing?

Nope, the CPS could still proceed with the case against her in spite of her boyfriend’s wanting them to drop the case - essentially he had no say in how the CPS would conduct a case that they decided was of sufficient interest to the public.

She had entered a plea of not guilty at the preliminary hearing already and if the CPS had been successful in making their case, she could have been facing six months in prison.

retro:electro wrote: »

The media didn’t kill her. She was charged with assault, were they just meant to ignore that fact and pretend it never happened? Having said that, social media has created a level of accessibility where you can literally @whoeveryoulike and abuse them to your hearts content, with a vulnerable person like this, in a situation like that, like this it’s a recipe for disaster.

It’s incredibly sad that this is how her life ended, and I have a genuine pit of stomach sadness that she felt this was her only option. But I think when things like this happen it’s too easy to look for someone to blame. It’s the same with the previous Love Island deaths —tragic and all as they were, clearly issues were already at play there. Reports claim she had slit her wrists the night she was charged with assault, so its clear that perhaps she was on some kind of downward spiral. It’s just incredibly sad that this is how it ended. I say this as someone who was never much of a fan, but I’m genuinely sad today to hear this news. She always came across as someone who seemed so young at heart with a lively spirit.

Absolutely spot on, well said.

I'd also like to add that people who are jumping on the band wagon about 3 suicides resulting from Love Island, where is the proof that if they hadn't been associated with the show that this wouldn't have happened?