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Lucy Meadows coroner tells press: 'shame on you' [UK]
A coroner…ruled that a primary school teacher had killed herself after her gender reassignment became national news. Michael Singleton…singled out the Daily Mail as he accused the paper of…"character assassination" of Lucy Meadows….Meadows poisoned herself…three months after she started to live and work as a woman. In a note she left, she made no mention of press intrusion…[b]ut the coroner was insistent that the unwelcome media attention had contributed to her death…In a piece headlined "He's not only in the wrong body … he's in the wrong job", Littlejohn asked whether anyone had thought of the "devastating effect" on Meadows's pupils… The PCC carried out an investigation…[and] the Daily Mail offered to take down Littlejohn's article…