Teenage factory worker fell to his death after smoking cannabis

• Tyler Smith, 19, confessed to family about sexual thoughts he tried to suppress with Valium They said they would support him but he remained wracked with guilt
• Inquest hears he started smoking cannabis aged 15 and went to raves Policeman tried to talk him down from viaduct but he fell to his death 

A teenager fell to his death from a railway viaduct when he started getting 'inappropriate sexual thoughts' after smoking cannabis, an inquest has heard.

Factory worker Tyler Smith posted a Facebook status saying 'I feel death calling me', and started taking Valium in an attempt to suppress what was going through his mind.

When he confessed his secret thoughts to his girlfriend Lucy Roberts and his parents, they expressed support for him and vowed to help him overcome them.

But he later walked on to Stockport Viaduct in Greater Manchester and fell off the edge as a policeman tried to talk him down, causing multiple injuries which led to his death a week later.
 

Tyler, 19, from Stockport, began smoking cannabis at the age of 15 and took more drugs when he started going to raves, the inquest was told.

His mother Deborah Cooper said: '
When he was OK, his behaviour was very loving. There were no problems or concerns when he wasn't taking drugs or drinking.But when he was down and depressed his behaviour changed. I noticed a few Facebook statuses that he put up and would ask him what was wrong. He would write things like, "I feel death calling me", and he would just tell me that I wouldn't understand.

'I carried on asking him what was wrong and he said, "If I told you I would have to kill myself." Eventually he told me about the inappropriate sexual thoughts. I tried to talk to him about the thoughts but he didn't think there was any help for him.

'Because of those thoughts he would say he didn't want to get old. He told me Valium was the only thing that got rid of the thoughts he was having.'

Tyler was later admitted to hospital after taking a drug overdose, but was discharged despite telling doctors about his sexual thoughts and Valium use.

His father Kenneth Smith told the inquest in Stockport: 'I knew he was smoking marijuana but I never had any suspicions that he was taking any other drugs. I was never aware of the sexual thoughts he was having up until he went to hospital after taking an overdose.

'When I arrived at the hospital I asked him what's been going on and he was making it out like he had something to tell me. He went into detail about the thoughts he was having.

'I had no prior knowledge so that was quite shocking. I told him I could help him and he said, "I don't think you can, you don't realise how deep it is."

'He asked me how I felt about him now that I knew and I told him I would love him always no matter what.'

Miss Roberts, 18, said: 'I knew he used drugs when I first met him, and it was right to say that he was using a number of other drugs occasionally. It wasn't every day, but at the weekend recreationally. In the last year he stopped taking drugs - not completely though, he was still smoking cannabis.

'I became aware that Tyler was buying Valium just before the accident but now I know that he had been taking it for a few weeks. He confided to me about the inappropriate sexual thoughts he had.

'He had spoken about wanting to self-harm and if we spoke about our future he would say, "Well I won't be here." He was going on about how he didn't want to be here and wanted to take his life.