Suicide Over a Minor Pot Possession Charge?

This story comes from the North Wales Weekly News: 50p drugs case youth killed himself. From the article:

A teenage lacrosse star killed himself after he was summoned to court for possessing cannabis worth 50p, an inquest heard.
Ex-head boy Edward Thornber was found hanged on September 15, 2011, after being caught smoking the drug in Cornwall.
Two days earlier, the 17-year-old from Didsbury , Manchester, had received an order to appear in court - but a law firm acting on behalf of his family say the teenager should have only been given a warning.
A student at Loreto College in Hulme, Edward had been head boy at The Barlow RC High School in Didsbury and was hoping to coach lacrosse in America before going to university. However, he had been caught smoking cannabis with a friend earlier that summer while on holiday in Newquay. It was the second time he had been caught with the drug.

At the town's police station, he agreed to accept a "final warning", which he believed would not result in him having a criminal record - or jeopardise his chances of pursuing a lacrosse career in the US.

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