Judy Thomas tells the BBC she struggled to get information from tech firms after her teenage daughter died.
By Laura Kuenssberg and Jasmine AnderssonA mother said she was left "in the wilderness" trying to find out information from tech companies after her daughter took her own life.The family repeatedly tried to get information and were left "absolutely at a loss," she told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
Ms Thomas added: "We would have really appreciated the platforms coming to the inquest as they were requested to." Baroness Kidron said there needed to be "a proper formal route for parents and for coroners to get the kind of information we need to see." "It is inhuman, and the sort of distress that is happening all of these years later is unacceptable."The letter sent to the government - and seen by the BBC - says: "We have each lost a child in circumstances relating to the digital world, and we have each struggled to gain information we needed to understand more about their deaths. Sadly, each year, there are hundreds of families who find themselves in similarly distressing circumstances.
They say: "Meta for example, never disclosed records of what content was promoted to Molly on Instagram; they disclosed some of the harmful content Molly saved or liked only weeks before the final inquest; and the initial disclosure was provided in a manner wholly inaccessible to Molly's family."Ms Thomas said in some respects she did "despair" over the situation but added it would be brilliant if the government now took the opportunity to act.
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