Taunted Gay Teen Lays Down In Front Of Train To Die

London) A coroner's court has heard the final details of the suicide of a Welsh teen whose family says was driven to his death by homophobic taunting.

Fifteen year old Jonathan Reynolds sent his family a final text message minutes before he lay down on the tracks in front of train traveling at 85 miles an hour.

"Tell everyone that this is for anybody who eva said anything bad about me, see I do have feelings too. Blame the people who were horrible and injust 2 me. This is because of them, I am human just like them. I hope they rot in hell 4 what they made me do. They know who they are," said the message to his father and his 14 year old sister.

"None of you blame urself mum, dad, Sam and the rest of my family. This is not because of you." the message ended.

His mother, Caroline Reynolds told the coroner's court that her son had planned to stay in the night of his death but went out after a phone argument with two classmates.

Several weeks earlier Jonathan came out to a friend at school, Aimee Murray.

Murry told the court that Jonathan had been teased about his sexuality by a number of boys at the school but a police investigation following the boy's death found that he had not brought the harassment to the attention of school officials.

A post mortem found that the teen had three times the legal amount of alcohol in his system at the time of his death.

An American study on teen bullying released in March found that lesbian and gay adolescents were three to four times more likely to report having been bullied than heterosexual teens.

The study, conducted by researchers at the Children's Hospital Boston Division of Adolescent Medicine, found that nearly half of the lesbian and gay youth in the study had been bullied in the past year.

According to the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, a national advocacy group, students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered are five times more likely to skip school than the general population, and do worse academically.

*365Gay.com