LOVE OR OBSESSION?!
This isn’t
a fiction or my imagination. This story actually happened not too long ago, about
an 18 year old girl in the UK and I just recalled and felt like sharing with you.
A
teenager killed herself by deliberately walking onto a motorway after being
dumped by her “controlling” boyfriend, so I read.
Lena
Begum, 18, died of multiple serious injuries and internal bleeding after being
hit by a van on the M65, in Lancashire.
One of
the dental student’s friends told Burnley Coroner’s Court she was “mentally
obsessed” with Quzlam Ahmed, who she met in hospital, despite his “history of
violence”.
Lena been
treated for self-harming after carving his nickname, Kammy, into her arm. The
troubled teen was struck while crossing the eastbound slip-road towards Gannow,
at junction 10, at around 3.50am.
A
post-mortem examination showed Lena, from Brierfield, in Lancashire, died
“rapidly” from multiple serious injuries including fractures to her neck,
skull, spine and ribs.
East
Lancashire’s assistant coroner, Mark Williams, said she was known to police
after being reported missing a number of times and had previously been placed
in local authority care.
She had
started a relationship with Mr Ahmed after meeting him at a hospital placement
in Bradford in October.
In
January, she was asked to leave the facility following breaches of rules
including drinking and later the same month, she was treated for self-harming
after Mr Ahmed said he no longer wanted to be her boyfriend.
Giving
evidence, Taslema Alom, who was with Lena the morning of her death, said: “I
think she was mentally obsessed with him (Mr Ahmed).
“She
would go and meet him whenever he called. I kept telling her to stop seeing
him. Before she met Kammy she was happy and fun to be with.
“After
she got with him, she changed. It was like he controlled her. I’ve seen him
punch her on one occasion, at the time of her 18th birthday.”
Miss Alom
said Lena had previously mentioned taking her own life.
“I didn’t
believe that she would do it,” she said.
The night
before she died, Lena, who was studying as a dental nurse at Blackburn College,
had been at a friend’s house and visited a shisha bar before asking to be
dropped off near the M65 at around 1.30am.
Recalling
the last time she saw her, another friend, Marcia Khan, said: “Everything was
fine. She was normal. She turned around and she smiled.”
Police
officers explained that between midnight and her death, 16 calls were made
between Lena’s phone and her mother’s.
She also
had two conversations totalling 30 minutes with Mr Ahmed, who was in Blackburn
at the time, and recorded a voicemail message.
PC
Richard Roberts, an accident investigator, said Lena would have been able to
see the Mercedes Sprinter approaching her for “more than 10 seconds” and that
there was “no obvious reason for pedestrians to attempt to cross the road
there”.
Asked if
street lighting on the M65 would have allowed the driver to have seen the
teenager earlier, PC Roberts replied: “Potentially, yes.”
Absolving
van driver John Trainor of any blame, he added: “By the time she was
illuminated, he (Mr Trainor) would not have had time to slow down.”
He said
that Mr Trainor, who was travelling at 59mph, would have been as close as 35
metres to Lena before he could see her.
Concluding
that Lena had taken her own life, Mr Williams said her relationship with Mr
Ahmed ‘does not appear to have been very good for her well-being.”
He added:
“It is quite clear that before 4am she walked across the path of a Mercedes van
driven by Mr Trainor.
“There
was nothing Mr Trainor could do.”
Mature
Minds Talk.
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