Izzy Dix (pictured
above), a gifted pupil who had ambitions to go to Oxford University, took her
own life after complaining she could no longer cope with being bullied, both at
school and online.
‘Izzy
would come home and sob in my arms" Her mother Gabbi said "They
called her “ugly”, “freak”, “frigid”. If she put her hands up in class, she’d
be labelled a “swot” and they’d snigger at her, or make crude comments. They’d
exclude her from events, tell her to go home, she wasn’t wanted. They’d turn
their backs on her, literally. When she did come home, it didn’t stop, because
it doesn’t, these days. They name-called her by text, then online. She’d log
onto Facebook and get abuse. Then onto that awful site Ask.fm and be subjected
to filth."
14 yr old Izzy
committed suicide on September 17th. Her mother explained what happened that
night
"When she came home from school that night, she seemed tired
and a bit cranky. We had words because I wanted to watch The Great British Bake
Off and she didn’t. But there was nothing to suggest she was going to do what
she did. I remember she painted her nails - she was so meticulous about how she
looked - then went up to her room and did her homework, had a shower, got her
bag ready for school, laid out her uniform. I popped in and we had another chat
about how the bullying was getting on top of her. It was nothing we hadn’t done
100 times before, and I’d always give her the talk about how she was stronger
than the bullies.
‘Then I went downstairs while she got ready for bed. I had a cup
of tea and a cigarette — she hates me smoking so I did it outside. I was gone
15 minutes, tops. In that 15 minutes my life was destroyed.’
When she
came back inside, Gabbi went back upstairs to see if Izzy was getting into bed,
but the bedroom door did not swing back as usual.
‘Something
was blocking it, and it was Izzy,’ she says, and breaks down completely.
Her
description of the hours that followed is too awful to relate in detail, but
she managed to get her daughter’s body down and dial 999, then ran hysterically
into the street. Neighbours tried to revive Izzy while she ‘just took off’.
‘It’s all
a blur. At one point I ran into a car. A police officer had to restrain
me.
‘I
remember him saying, “I am so sorry to have to do this” as he got me to the
ground.’
Not long
before her suicide, Izzy wrote a heartbreaking poem about her ordeal. She
called it I Give Up. See it below
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