By Mark Ballard for The Register.
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The BBC reports that police evidence handed to prosecutors did not amount to a criminal offence in the suicide of Kevin Whitrick, 42, from Wellington, Shropshire. Mr Whitrick had suffered from depression following a serious car accident which he had not recovered from.
In a statement, a CPS spokesman said: "We examined all the evidence passed to us by the police and have concluded that none of the comments made in the chatroom amounted to a criminal offence."
At the time of his death, reports said fellow chatroom users on Paltalk.com had goaded Mr Whitrick into taking his own life.
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