An aunt, from Erdington, is calling for new bullying laws after her nine-year-old nephew committed suicide.

Nine-year-old Aaron Dugmore, who studied at Erdington Hall School in Erdington, committed suicide.

His aunt Donna Dugmore believes he committed suicide because he was being bullied at his school and is now going to Westminster to call for new bullying laws.

However, police have denied he was bullied at Erdington Hall School.

Donna, who is part of a campaign group called Safer Schools, said she is hoping to save children’s lives and something needs to be done soon.

Donna said: “Mental health issues are on the rise as a result of bullying, something needs to be done soon.”

“Aaron used to tell me about the bullying, he’d say it’s really bad, they keep following me.

He didn’t get a breather from it, not for one day.”

She said Aaron was new at the school and he was a happy, bubbly boy before he joined the school.

Aaron would tell her that he didn’t like his new school and would pretend to be ill to avoid going to school.

Donna said: “He didn’t want anything to do with his younger siblings and cousins. He did everything he could to not go to school, he pretended to be ill.”

Donna revealed his sister and Aaron’s mother went to school to tell them about her son’s bullying two weeks before he died.

 

Donna and other families who have lost children to suicide are going to London on February 25 to meet ministers and MPs in Westminster to talk about new bullying laws.

Donna said they all just want schools to act upon complaints and stop pushing them aside.

She also said that bullying incidents need to be recorded by law.

She said: “The problem needs to be fixed before it gets even more broken and more lives are taken.

I just hope that something good can come out of what happened to Aaron.”

 

 

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