18 year old chef hangs himself after his mum asked him to start paying rent

A teenage chef was found hanged in his bedroom by his distraught mum just hours after she asked him to start paying rent.

Elliot Stapleton-Giddins, 18, was asked to start paying £200 month to mum Tracy if he wanted to continue living at the home they shared in Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire.But the next morning when she tried to open his bedroom door, she found his lifeless body on October 2, last year.


The UK Sun reports how an inquest heard Ms Stapleton-Giddins had text her son the previous evening saying: “You need to pay £200 a month. The other rooms are £500 so it seems like a fair deal.”

His mum said

“I was totally shocked,I shouldn’t have texted him, I should have spoken to him in person but I don’t think that was the reason.”