Boy found hanging after being 
excluded 
from school

Jordan Green’s mother Heidi found him dead in his bedroom in Harrogate, still wearing his school uniform.

His final words to her were: “Have a nice life, Mum. I feel like killing myself,” the coroners’ court in Knaresborough was told yesterday.

Jordan had become increasingly disruptive in lessons since his grandmother died and his mother and father, Kevin, separated, Mrs Green told the hearing.

He was excluded during his final year of primary school and struggled to settle at Harrogate High, which he started less than a year before his death.

On the morning of the day he died – June 27 last year – he had an argument with his mother about going to school. He attended but was excluded from classes for disruptive behaviour and Mrs Green, who was out working as a hairdresser, phoned her son at lunch time. Mrs Green said: “He just said ‘have a nice life, Mum. I feel like killing myself’.”

She told the hearing she tried calling him later, adding: “He wouldn’t answer his phone and I thought ‘he obviously doesn’t want to speak to me’.”

She returned home after 8pm and told the inquest: “I assumed that he wasn’t home.

“I thought he was playing with his friends.”

Mrs Green found Jordan’s body in his bedroom. She called friends for help, who found her distraught and on her knees shouting “my baby, my baby. Help my baby”, the inquest heard.

Paramedic Simon Temple said Mrs Green told him: “He’s only 12. I didn’t take him seriously.”

The inquest heard Jordan had witnessed domestic violence and became more disruptive after his grandmother died in 2006 and his parents split up in 2009.

“He was a very, very friendly and outgoing child,” said Mrs Green, who worked long hours and refused to claim benefits.

“We had a few issues in primary school – he started getting excluded. His behaviour wasn’t right.

“I don’t think mainstream school was right for him.”

Jordan, who enjoyed horse riding and art, was known to social services but had not tried to kill himself before and there was no evidence he was bullied, the inquest heard.

Coroner Rob Turnbull said Jordan was “a young boy who clearly had problems” and got “considerable support” from his school.

Recording an open verdict, Mr Turnbull said: “I cannot be certain one way or another whether Jordan intended to kill himself or whether this was just a terrible accident.”