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Suicide verdict on cult man

London Evening Standard, 9 August 1996, p.2

A man threw himself 200ft to his death after a religious cult refused to 
let him leave, an inquest heard.

Richard Collins, 24, joined the Church of Scientology hoping to "cleanse 
his body".

But when he tried to quit they bombarded his home and work with letters 
and phone calls in a last-ditch bid to make him stay.

Days later he leapt off Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.

The inquest ruled that Richard took his own life.

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