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Article: If Sam's death saves another life then some good will have come from it
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- Citizen Gloucestershire, The
- Article date:
- June 6, 2009
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By Sarah Webbsarah.webb@glosmedia.co.uk
THE grieving family of Sam Leeson hopes one year on from his
death, lessons have been learned about cyber bullying.
Schoolboy Sam, 13, was found dead at his Tredworth home on June
5, 2008.
The ex-pupil of Severn Vale School in Quedgeley is believed by
his family to have hanged himself after becoming the victim of
online bullying about his alternative way od dressing and love of
Emo music.
Sam's mum Sally Cope, said: "We have had a lot of advice about
what to do on the anniversary from charities like Winston's Wish but
you don't know how you will be feeling.
"We will be going to the cemetery as a family but it is just
another day in a horrendous year ...