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Southern 148/01
6 October 2001
999 CALL FROM CLIFF JUMPER
| Coastguards
dispatched a cliff rescue team to Beachy Head after a man
intending to commit suicide changed his mind after landing on a
ledge and dialled 999 from his mobile phone on 5 October 2001.
A winchman was sent down to raise the panicking man, whose
fingernails had snapped off as he tried to scramble back to
safety during the 25-minute incident, which occurred at the
notorious suicide spot known locally as Sugar Loaf. |
Beachy Head
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| The man,
who had become wedged in the jagged rocks, had smashed on to a
boulder 20ft down the 100ft cliffs in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
It is understand the man had originally intended to kill
himself but then decided that wasn’t the way he wanted his life
to go.
The man was later treated at Eastbourne District General
Hospital for minor injuries. |
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