"They target teenagers' Parents of victim tell of tragic ordeal

It was a relaxed evening at home in Dunblane, near Stirling, a few days before the turn of the year.

- Libby Brooks

The Dowey family Ros, Mark and their three sons - were watching television when talk turned to plans for the new year. Murray, 16 years old and their middle boy, chatted about saving up for a holiday to Marbella he was planning with his friends that summer. At about half past nine, he went up to his bedroom. It was the last time his family saw him alive.

The next morning, Ros was preparing for a visit to friends in Glasgow. "I saw that Murray's door was ajar with the light on," she says.

"I walked in and said 'Are you up?" and found him there." Mark was downstairs when he heard "this crazy screaming". He shudders at the recollection. In the couple of hours since he had gone to bed, Muzz - as his family knew him - had taken his own life.

It took the police two weeks to gain access to Murray's phone, and discover the truth - two weeks of "questioning every interaction", says Ros, "trying to understand what we'd missed, how that happy boy who'd gone to bed that night was dead". Neither Murray himself nor anyone close to him, had ever expressed any concerns about his mental health.