A TRAGIC WARNING FOR PARENTS: DAUGHTER, 15, COULDN'T LIVE

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A tragic warning for every parent: Father tells of beautiful, talented daughter, 15, who couldn’t live with 21st-century pressures of Facebook and social media
Olivia Glennie was popular dancer and singer with close circle of friends
Inquest has heard she was plagued with worries about on-off relationship
She was found hanging from a tree in woods by dog walker in September
Given CPR and taken to hospital - but she died five days later
An inquest in Huddersfield into her death had recorded a narrative verdict
Family said their 'beautiful and loved' daughter had had a 'happy family life'


By ROSIE TAYLOR
PUBLISHED: 13:45 GMT, 10 April 2014 | UPDATED: 00:59 GMT, 11 April 2014

A schoolgirl hanged herself because she could not cope with the ‘21st-century pressures’ caused by social media and mobile phones, her father said yesterday.
The family of 15-year-old Olivia Glennie had no idea anything was wrong before her death.
He father Alex said the pressures of 24-hour communication by text, Facebook and the internet mean teenagers are faced with ‘too much, too young’, and parents need to be more aware of the danger signs.
Olivia was found hanging from a tree in September by a dog walker. She was given resuscitation treatment and taken to hospital but died five days later.
Talented and popular, Olivia was outwardly happy but was hiding insecurities about her boyfriend, her friends and her looks, an inquest heard. Her family said they were unaware of this as she ‘had everything to live for’ and had enjoyed her sister’s wedding just days before.
Mr Glennie, 51, a contracts manager from Huddersfield, told the Daily Mail: ‘I can’t say what was going through her mind, I don’t think anybody in this world can.
‘Maybe people need to be more aware of the signs with teenagers in this day and age. With the internet and mobile phones and Facebook, I think they are getting too much, too young. It’s a cultural change.
‘Children are growing up so quickly. They have a lot of pressures, these 21st-century pressures.’ He said his daughter, who was 6ft 1in, could have been a model but was insecure about her teenage acne. ‘She would say to me, “Dad, I’ve got too many spots”,’ he said. ‘I have photographs of her with no makeup on and she still looks beautiful.’


A statement from Olivia’s mother, Diane, 49, was read to the inquest in Huddersfield. She said: ‘To be told that our beautiful daughter would not pull through brought unimaginable pain, all our hopes and dreams for her were shattered.‘
She must have been in a really dark place at that time. This is something, as a mother, I wish I could have helped her with.’


The inquest heard from Olivia’s friends that she was upset about splitting from her on-off boyfriend and had fallen out with a close friend. One friend was aware she had been self-harming by cutting her hip, but her parents did not know. Friends had been supportive and did not suspect she was suicidal.
Olivia had taken her French and history GCSEs early and was expecting A* and A grades in a further ten subjects. She had hoped to go to university and become a teacher.
Her organs were donated, as she had requested, and her family recently received a letter saying she had helped save the lives of three people: a 14-year-old girl, a woman in her 20s and a man in his 30s whose successful kidney transplant has enabled him to take his first holiday abroad.
Mr Glennie said: ‘She will be living on in somebody else. That is comforting to know.’
Assistant coroner Mary Burke said Olivia ‘had everyday issues that you would expect with a teen growing up’.
She added: ‘She was a 15-year-old girl with a complex range of ever-increasing pressures and stresses which face adolescents in their daily lives.’
Recording a narrative verdict, she said she had doubts Olivia intended to take her own life and it was possible she believed she would be found before her actions proved fatal.


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