We found out when it was too late

Cornwall, whose son died in May, said: ‘Ben’s death was completely unexpected with no previous cry for help.

‘There were so many times when we could have intervened if we had known. Ben’s friends had the right advice: “tell your parents”. We wish the university had had the legal authority to do that.’

His son’s death was the third suspected suicide at the prestigious university in the space of three weeks.

Unaware: James Murray with a picture of his son THE father of a student who killed himself said staff at Bristol University had not told them his son had been struggling with mental health problems. First-year English student Ben Murray, 19, had...