18-yr-old girl who was dumped by her ‘controlling’ boyfriend committed suicide

Date: 29-01-2014 6:58 pm (10 years ago) | Author: Direct
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A teenage girl who was dumped by her ‘controlling’ boyfriend committed suicide by deliberately stepping into the path of traffic on a dark motorway, an inquest heard.
Lena Begum, 18, had been wandering around the three lane carriageway for up to two hours during which she recorded a 3am voicemail message for Quzlam Ahmed saying: ‘You will probably love me one day the way I loved you, but it will be too late.’
Minutes later the dental student was killed after walking in front of a van travelling at almost 60mph along the inside lane of the M65 near her home in Burnley, Lancashire.
She said Lena would ‘drop everything’ to meet Mr Ahmed whenever he called, and as the relationship developed she went from being ‘happy and fun’ to ‘depressed’.
In a statement, she said Lena had told her she would ‘go onto a motorway and get herself run over.’
Miss Alam said: ‘I kept telling her to stop seeing him but she didn’t listen.’
On the night of the tragedy on April 10 last year, Miss Alam said she and Lena had been at the home of a friend Marcia Khan before heading to a shisha bar, where guests smoke flavoured tobacco in pipes.
Afterwards Lena asked to be dropped off on a road near the motorway. Miss Alam said: ‘All I remember is her going up some stairs, she seemed happy. She wasn’t saying about hurting herself, she never said anything.

Miss Khan said during the evening Lena had confided in her about her romance with Ahmed. She said: ‘Lena was saying how he didn’t love her and she just wanted him to love her, that she does everything for him and he doesn’t do anything.
‘She was being quiet – before that conversation she was happy and bubbly. I’d heard a few things that she had tried doing things in the past but didn’t believe that she had the ability.’
She said at the end of the evening, Lena had, ‘walked up the stairs, turned around and smiled’. She added: ‘I smiled back.That was the last time I saw her.
‘She said she wanted to see her friend, and made it sound so realistic.’
But half an hour later Lena was spotted walking down the motorway slip road and into oncoming traffic, recording messages to loved ones as she held her mobile phone.
Driver Michelle Harris, who was coming off the motorway, said: ‘She was not dawdling, not staggering and appeared to be doing something with her mobile phone, holding it up with both hands at chest level.
‘I thought she was texting. I slowed and came to a stop and looked in my mirror and couldn’t see her. I thought she could have broken down.’
The inquest heard that deliveryman John Trainer, 48, was driving his Mercedes Sprinter van in the inside lane of the motorway at 3.50am when Lena walked in front of him.
His statement read: ‘There was no lighting, the area was pitch black. For a split second I caught a glimpse of a person who was walking across from lane two, almost at the line divider.
‘I pressed the brakes as hard as I could, I swerved to avoid. She didn’t even look towards me, she just continued to walk across. I couldn’t avoid the collision.
‘I don’t believe I could have done anything to avoid her, I do believe if there were motorway lights I would have seen her sooner and slowed down a lot sooner.’
Lena was pronounced dead at the scene despite attempts to save her. Records showed she had spoken to Ahmed twice on the phone for around 30 minutes.
At 2.05 am she posted a picture to Facebook and Twitter, and earlier in the evening posted messages on social networking sites.

Posted: at 29-01-2014 06:58 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
- luther4real at 29-01-2014 07:22 PM (10 years ago)
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hmmm, what love can cause Huh?
Posted: at 29-01-2014 07:22 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- chicco77 at 29-01-2014 07:59 PM (10 years ago)
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RIP
Posted: at 29-01-2014 07:59 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- jar84 at 29-01-2014 08:36 PM (10 years ago)
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rip
Posted: at 29-01-2014 08:36 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- 80Julietss at 29-01-2014 08:44 PM (10 years ago)
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rip
Posted: at 29-01-2014 08:44 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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- civictayo4great at 29-01-2014 08:46 PM (10 years ago)
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Love !!!
Posted: at 29-01-2014 08:46 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
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- osamabinladin at 29-01-2014 08:49 PM (10 years ago)
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 Sad
Posted: at 29-01-2014 08:49 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- Wysetots at 29-01-2014 08:52 PM (10 years ago)
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You're not Jesus......you died in vain.
Posted: at 29-01-2014 08:52 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- kenny_kenny at 29-01-2014 09:09 PM (10 years ago)
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stupid gurl
Posted: at 29-01-2014 09:09 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
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- angesco at 29-01-2014 09:23 PM (10 years ago)
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Love and infactuation - difficult to decipher which!
Posted: at 29-01-2014 09:23 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Lekan22 at 29-01-2014 09:54 PM (10 years ago)
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ok
Posted: at 29-01-2014 09:54 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- beneno at 29-01-2014 10:25 PM (10 years ago)
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its realy sad when some one you love doesnt appreciate ur love for him or her,any way God knows the best R.I.P
Posted: at 29-01-2014 10:25 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- winace at 29-01-2014 10:50 PM (10 years ago)
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Hmmmm well I won't blame her she was still young so she didn't kn wat love really is b4 falling stupidly in it for a low life.
Posted: at 29-01-2014 10:50 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- winace at 29-01-2014 10:51 PM (10 years ago)
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May her soul rest in peace. Amen
Posted: at 29-01-2014 10:51 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- Neglito at 29-01-2014 10:53 PM (10 years ago)
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Women and love.... may God forgive you.
Posted: at 29-01-2014 10:53 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- omegaemmanuel at 29-01-2014 11:22 PM (10 years ago)
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COULD THIS BE LOVE
Posted: at 29-01-2014 11:22 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
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- paulohking at 29-01-2014 11:30 PM (10 years ago)
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I'm sure u r now regretting this in hell Roll Eyes
Posted: at 29-01-2014 11:30 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- dareper at 29-01-2014 11:31 PM (10 years ago)
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Naija baby go say she want kill her self cuz man no like am, for where?
Posted: at 29-01-2014 11:31 PM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- trapheal at 29-01-2014 11:43 PM (10 years ago)
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why did they ban??...  for no crime.... I had not been online ,just finishing my exams online to find out that I had been BANNED?
Posted: at 29-01-2014 11:43 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- donblade85 at 29-01-2014 11:49 PM (10 years ago)
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2 2 bad
Posted: at 29-01-2014 11:49 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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