Mark Speight

What is considered to be front page news nowadays here in the UK completely blows my mind.

Last Monday, the body of a children's tv presenter was found hanging at Paddington railway station.

Mark Speight's story was extremely heartbreaking. Speight is one of the most well known TV presenters in the UK after presenting the long running childrens art show "SMart". He met his fiancee, Natasha Collins when she co- presented a show with him entitled "See it, Saw it" in 2000 and they were engaged in 2005.

On the 3rd January 2008, Speight phoned the police and ambulance after he found Collins dead in the bath after she had ingested a lethal cocktail of cocaine, vodka, sleeping pills and wine with 60% burns on her body from scalding water. He was subsequently arrested then released after police said he wasn't a suspect. The coroner gave a verdict of "death by misadventure".

He disappeared at the beginning of april and was found dead on the 14th.
He was depressed and signs point to the fact that he had commited suicide by hanging.

Speight loved Collins so much that he couldn't live without her.

There was hardly any news coverage on this. I don't think it even made a front page of any of the papers. Considering that there was so much media coverage when he was arrested, it would have made sense for there to be coverage when he passed. But this isn`t the case. And if you google his name, the only article that comes up is the one from the Independant while many appear from the inquest.

May he rest in peace.