One of the foremost of these "suicide cult" bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey. Their hair is dyed black and worn in long fringes to obscure their faces.Įmo - from the word emotional - is a reference to the angst-filled lyrics and melancholy themes of the rock music central to the culture. It is a largely teenage trend and is characterised by depression, self-injury and suicide.įollowers wear tight jeans with studded belts and wristbands. Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Sykes said: "The Emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing." The inquest was told Hannah had not used drugs or alcohol before her death but Vanessa Everett, her head teacher at Mascalls School, said self-harm had become commonplace among other Emo fans. She had been angry when she was told she was not allowed to sleep over and when she got home in East Peckham she went straight to her room, saying: "I want to kill myself." The inquest in Maidstone, Kent, heard Hannah had been with her boyfriend at a friend's house on the evening of September 22 last year. The page is decorated with a picture of an Emo girl with bloody wrists after slashing herself.Īnother picture shows a child's exercise book scrawled with the words: "Dear Diary, today I give up." Hannah gave her name as Living Disaster on her page on social networking website Bebo. "She promised me she would never do it again." I asked her about them and she said it was an Emo initiation. Hannah's father Ray, a karate teacher, said: "Two weeks before, I saw the cuts. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager." "She called Emo a fashion and I thought it was normal."
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"There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves," she said. Hannah's mother Heather told the inquest she had researched the trend since her daughter's death.
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Heartbroken: Ray and Heather Bond told the court their daughter had told them emo was 'just a fashion'Ĭoroner Roger Sykes said yesterday that Hannah's death was "not glamorous, just simply a tragic loss of a young life".