A teenage photographer took his life after his parents confiscated his electronic devices to stop him from always going late to bed. Ceri Sheehan, 15, had objected at first, arguing that he needed to hold on to his iPad but he eventually had to give it up after which he went to bed. However, the next day, Ceri was found dead in their garden by his father Michael Sheehan at their home in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Though his iPad was taken, Ceri managed to hang on to his phone with which he messaged one of his friends that he "had something to finish". He went to the garden after that and hanged himself. Mr Sheehan, a project manager, told an inquest that he had not noticed anything unusual about his son the day before he found his body. "I took Ceri and a friend to an afternoon session of paintball. When I picked them up they both seemed in good spirits. I asked Ceri if he wanted to go out to eat but he said he'd prefer to stay in. He spent most of the evenin...
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