Chris Morgan

Christopher Morgan - who was born on July 29th, 1952, in Cardiff, Wales, U.K. - was a Welsh journalist and television- and radio-presenter. Educated at Cardiff High School, and at Atlantic College in the Vale of Glamorgan, he was the oldest of four children born to parents who were both bank cashiers. Following sixth-form, Morgan attended the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he stood as a Labour Party candidate for the local authority, as well as becoming treasurer of the National Union of Students. After graduating with a Master of Theology degree in 1976, he moved into the media the following year by joining the BBC's Religious department. In 1978, he began training as a journalist at BBC Wales, working as a reporter and presenter on both radio and television, eventually becoming one of the main presenters on the flagship BBC Wales news programme, Wales Today. A committed Anglo-Catholic Christian, Morgan was a close friend of the future Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and was best man at Williams's wedding in 1981. Moving to London in 1990, Morgan became a reporter for Thames News and TV-AM; whilst also, for seven years between 1990 and 1997, presenting the Radio 4 Sunday-morning programme, Sunday, which focused on religious and moral issues. Morgan was appointed Religious Affairs correspondent for The Sunday Times in 1997, a post he held until his death. From the year 2000, he began contributing to a number of television news programmes on religious affairs, and appeared regularly on BBC News 24, Sky News, and CNN. In 2005, Morgan's mother - to whom he was very close, and whom he telephoned at least three times a day - passed away. Without a wife or children to depend on for support (Morgan never married), he began to become quite depressed, although he seemed to keep much of his sadness to himself, and managed to maintain a facade of competent professionalism. However, by 2007, Morgan began to suffer from bouts of depression, for which he sought psychiatric help, even being sectioned at one point. He became more reclusive, often not returning phone calls or e-mails. In the Spring of 2008, Morgan contributed a couple of articles to The Sunday Times, this return to productivity leading friends to believe he was returning to some measure of good health. Sadly, his recovery was shortlived, as - on the afternoon of Friday, May 30th, 2008 - Morgan's body was found by British Transport Police on the track at Kings Langley railway station in Hertfordshire, having been in collision with a Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston train. His death was ruled a suicide. Chris Morgan was 55 years old.

Bob Carlos Clarke

Robert Carlos Clarke - who was born on June 24th, 1950, in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland - was an Irish photographer, who was best-known for his highly-stylized erotic images of women.  From a fading aristocratic family, and the son of Charles Carlos Clarke and his much-younger secretary Myra Dora Lynn, Clarke was sent to boarding school in England, which he hated.  On returning on one occasion from school to Ireland, he found his place in the family home had been usurped after his mother had given birth to a younger brother, Andrew.  Bob didn't like having a sibling rival, and would abuse his brother, including nailing him into a box and pushing him downhill.  (Andrew died of a heroin overdose in 2008.)  At the age of sixteen, Clarke broke up with a girl who had threatened to kill herself if he did so.  Clarke charmingly send her a letter containing a bullet and a note saying, "This one's on me."  After school, and a brief spell in Belfast, Clarke enrolled at Worthing College of Art in West Sussex in 1970.  Around this time, he began photographing nudes for "Gentleman's" Magazines.  Whilst at college, Clarke met Sue Frame, a part-time model; the pair married in 1975.  By 1975, he had enrolled at the London College of Printing, and that same year graduated with an M.A. in photography from the Royal College of Art.  Frame was Clarke's muse for nine years, but it was after only two years of marriage that Sue realised he was having an affair with Lindsey, who would become his second wife, as well as "dabbling" with other women.  Sue Frame claimed that Clarke said about her: "I will kill you first before you leave me."  Frame soon divorced Clarke and moved to South Africa, the two never meeting again.  In 1992, Lindsey gave birth to Clarke's only child, Scarlett, and Lindsey became his second wife in 1997.  Lindsey later described Carlos Clarke as, "amoral".  Carlos Clarke's career took off in 1980, when he produced the photographs for a book of Anais Nin's erotic stories, Delta of Venus.  A series of glossy coffee-table books followed through until the early 2000s, and he became renowned for his portraits of celebrities, as well as producing advertising campaigns for Levi's, Smirnoff, and Volkswagen.  In 1990, he produced a book, White Heat, featuring the then-largely-unknown chef Marco Pierre White looking like a rock star in his white-hot kitchens.  Apparently, in the late-1990s, Clarke began to become disillusioned with himself and his career.  He saw the recent innovation of digital photography as a threat to the skills he had spent decades honing.  By September of 2005, Clarke was behaving oddly.  His wife would often find he had gone missing from the flat they shared with their daughter; she sometimes found him sitting in his van, muttering darkly about suicide, and admitting, "I don't know what I'm doing."  In March of 2006, Lindsey persuaded Clarke to check into The Priory Clinic for psychiatric treatment.  After two weeks, he seemed to be improving.  However, on March 26th, 2006, Clarke walked out of The Priory, and took himself a mile to The White Hart Lane level-crossing, near Barnes, south-west London, where he threw himself under the passing 10.53 Windsor to Waterloo train.  Bob Carlos Clarke was 55 years old.

Zoe Tynan

Zoe Tynan - who was born on May 20th, 1998, in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England - was an English footballer.  As a schoolgirl, Tynan excelled at rounders and cross-country running, as well as football.  Later concentrating on soccer, she was selected to represent England at under-15, under-17, and under-19 levels.  As a Youth player, she represented Liverpool Feds, Everton, and Manchester City, before signing for Manchester City's academy in 2015.  She was given her first-team debut when she played all 90 minutes of an F.A. Women's Cup quarter-final against Sporting Club Albion on April 3rd, 2016.  Though she wouldn't play any further games for Manchester City, her performance drew the attention of Fylde Ladies of the F.A. Women's Premier League.  Signing for Fylde, she played two games for them in 2016.  On August 30th, 2016, Tynan spoke to her sister, Beth, at the family home - saying she loved her, and that "everything would be okay" - before leaving at about 3.40 p.m.  At 4.09 p.m., she sent a text message to a friend, suggesting she was intending to end her own life.  C.C.T.V. cameras captured her "calmly" climbing down onto the railway tracks at West Allerton station at about 4.15 p.m., whereupon she was soon struck by a train travelling from Birmingham New Street to Liverpool Lime Street.  Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene, and coroner Anita Bhardwaj later recorded a verdict of suicide.  Tynan had achieved good 'A'-level results, and hoped to become a professional footballer.  She was just 18 years old.  After her death, the Zoe Tynan's Spirit of Running award was set up in Liverpool to recognise similar children who lead others by example and encouragement; whilst her first football team, Liverpool Feds - whom she had joined as a six-year-old - created the Zoe Tynan Tournament for under-10 and under-12 7-a-side teams.  This tournament has been held each year since 2017 in her honour, played on May 20th to coincide with the date of her birth.

Pete Shaughnessy

Peter Anthony Shaughnessy - who was born on September 14th, 1962, in South London, England - was a British mental-health activist and the founder of the Reclaim Bedlam and Mad Pride organisations.  After studying drama at college, he worked in a children's home and as a carer for the disabled, before becoming a bus driver in London.  In April, 1992, Shaughnessy was struck on the head with an iron bar after coming to the aid of a bus conductor who was being assaulted.  Shortly thereafter, he went on a hunger strike outside his bus garage in protest at privatisation of the service.  By the end of the year, he was hospitalised, after being diagnosed with manic depression.  Shaughnessy's depressive tendencies were further exacerbated when his sister was murdered by her boyfriend in Brixton, and he was then sectioned after hitting a policeman.  In 1997, Shaughnessy organised a Reclaim Bedlam campaign, initially to protest against anniversary celebrations of the Bethlem Hospital, thinking that the many unhappy experiences of 'Bedlam' patients warranted commemoration rather than celebration.  In 1999, he founded Mad Pride, campaigning for greater understanding of the 'mentally ill'.  During 2000, they helped, with punk-style campaigns and humour, to prevent several unpleasant changes to the Mental Health Act.  On December 15th, 2002, Shaughnessy committed suicide by stepping in front of a train at Battersea Park Railway Station in London.  On Christmas Eve that year, more than three-hundred people packed into St. Thomas More Church in East Dulwich for his funeral service.  Pete Shaughnessy was just 40 years old.

Robert Enke

Robert Enke, who was born on August 24th, 1977, in Jena, East Germany, was a German football goalkeeper.  He played most-notably for the German club Hannover 96, as well as winning 8 caps for the German national team.  He was also team captain of Hannover 96 from the 2007-8 season until the end of his career, and was twice voted best goalkeeper in the German Bundesliga.  Enke had been expected to be Germany's number-one 'keeper during the 2010 World Cup, but he had been struggling to cope with the death of his daughter in 2006, and had been treated by a psychiatrist after suffering from depression.  On the night of November 10th, 2009, Enke committed suicide by standing in the path of a regional express train at a level crossing in Eilvese, Neustadt am Rubenberge, Germany. He was 32 years old.