On the 12th of March 2021, Mia Janin was found dead in her home in Harrow. The 14-year-old was believed to have taken her own life after she was bullied both in person and online.
On the 23rd of January 2024, a four-day inquest into the death of Mia Janin commenced, Abigail Gowland of Watson Woodhouse Solicitors was instructed by Mia’s brother to assist with the process.
The inquest heard that Mariano Janin, Mia’s Father, believed she was cyberbullied by other pupils at her school. Mia’s parents had raised multiple concerns with the school that she was feeling lonely and isolated. Within five years, Mia’s death was the third at her school.
In statements given to the police following Mia’s passing and presented at Barnet coroner’s court, her friends revealed that she endured bullying from fellow students, which included one of Mia’s TikTok videos being shared in a Snapchat group of male pupils. Additionally, Mia’s TikTok videos had received a lot of negative comments from other students. Mia’s friends also revealed the boys would share edited photos, “They used girls’ faces on porn stars’ bodies to upset us.”
On the 26th of January 2024, the inquest concluded that Mia Janin took her own life after being bullied by boys at her school.
Mr Janin states, “I’m still alive, physically, I have a heartbeat – but in other ways, my life is gone. I will never see my beautiful daughter grow up. I will never meet her kids, or her grandchildren. There’s no future for me, there’s no future.”
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In the Media:
Mia Janin: Schoolboys made fun of girl before her death – BBC News
‘Beautiful’ girl, 14, took own life after TikTok ‘bullying’ at London school, grieving father says