Anna Nicolin-Casley says, “I saw my son fighting for his last breath.” “He went into pain.”

Anna believes that 17 -year -old Vlad, Vlad, was “encouraged” to swallow poison by users of an online “pro -suicide” group, which is still active in Britain, many to ban it. Despite the call.

Vlad’s family has decided to reveal the annoying details of his death at Hampshire in May 2024, as a warning to others.

The government said that platforms should remove illegal suicide and self-loss material if new rules are made. This year applies as part of the online security act,

But Samaritons Charity says that it does not believe that the new law goes far away.

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This was 02:40 on May 7 when Anna’s teenage son Vlad shouted from his sleep, “Mum! Call the doctors!”

Then he shouted the name of a poison and when he drank it.

“I don’t know what the substance is,” Anna remembers, “but he has changed his mind, and he came to me to save him, to help him.”

Vlad’s father, Graham Casley, explains how his son would have to bow downwards before his bedroom fell on the floor.

Says Graham, “His hands were all caught and he was moving.” “It was just a nervous situation.”

“It was violent, it was sudden,” her mother says, as she describes her son as suffering from several seizures. “Fiting and fight for life – I can’t even start imagining the terror he had passed.”

After minutes, Graham was on his knees carrying CPR on his son, directed by paramedics on speakerphone.

Says Graham, “I was just doing what I could do to save and save my son’s life.” “It was just terrible.”

Police body-von camera footage shows chaos and emotional decline as emergency respondents failed and failed to save Vlad’s life.

After Vlad’s death, his family was shocked to know that he was sharing his “dark moments” with people online. His mother says it was a “very secret” community and describes it as a “pro -suicide” cult.

Detectives found a “suicide kit” in the family’s house of the family, including various poison, pills, and other things that Vlad bought after joining the chat group.

DS Chris Bairo of the Hampshire Police says, “He did research and understood, and is told where to buy these things and what to buy.” “So, without the website, Vlad will not be able to keep this set of objects and ingredients together with which his life has to be taken.”

After a happy childhood, Vlad began to withdraw in his early adolescence and later revealed autism, depression and anxiety. At the time of his death, he was being treated by mental health professionals and also developed a painful neurological condition.

His family says that he saw improvement in his mental health as he started seeing and traveling to friends. But Vlad’s elder sisters, Masha and Mia say, even though he was much better, he was weak even when he took his life.

“Even though the people using this platform struggle,” Masha says, “No one knew my brother well that he was enough to take any decision about his life.”

Mia, who has exchanged messages with mediators on the website, describes the site as a “eco chamber”, which can “push people on the edge”.

“There is almost certainly grooming,” she says.

BBC has spent years Test The online platform which was a member of Vlad. It now has more than 50,000 members globally and Vlad’s family wants it to be taken down or blocked.

Incidentally, Vlad had ordered poison from a Ukrainian seller named Leonid Zakutaneco just before the BBC. exposed Him.

But Vlad did not swallow that poison. The chemical that was eventually ordered from Poland and probably was incorrectly label to receive through customs.

After his death, the family read all Vlad’s posts and exchanges on the stage and described how things “slowly increased”.

Vlad’s mother, Anna says: “Then you have private chats and you are doing the path of death down. Anyone can come beyond it. A child can come beyond it. There is no check.

“How are the people who sold the poison, how is it legal?”

“They are alive,” Vlad’s father, Graham, says, “Our son is dead.”

If a criminal offense has been committed, to install it, the police investigation into Vlad’s death continues.

The website is located in South America and hosted by a server in the United States. With various laws in various countries, online loss is very difficult for police.

Data from the National Statistics Office suggests that suicides in England and Wales have increased by 10% in the last six years. Although it is still rare for the age of 25 to kill himself by poisoning, the number of youth choosing to end their lives in this way is growing more faster than older people.

A government spokesperson said, “Suicide destroys families. Intentionally encourages suicide or a serious self-loss of another person is illegal.

“Once the online security act is fully implemented, the platforms will have to remove this illegal suicide and self -loss material and at the same time the children have to stop looking at the material related to harmful suicide – even when when when It comes below the criminal border.

“Companies should not wait for laws to be implemented – they should now take effective action to protect all users.”

CEO Julie Bentley, CEO of Samaritons, says charity calls for small sites are considered seriously because large platforms have been “completely ignored”.

She says, “Legal-but-hiratory materials need to be strictly regulated for both adults and children,” she says, both the government and com “Before too late” to act.

Offcom told the BBC that July sites “would have duties to protect children from harmful self-loss and suicides, even where it is not illegal”.

“As these duties apply, we will be able to use the full limit of our enforcement powers against any service that fails to perform our duties,” said this.

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Jonathan Fagg, Additional Reporting by Senior Data Journalist

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