UK News 18-03-2005 who: 20 year-old skydiver Stephen Hilder what: May have tried to make his suicide look like murder, inquest is told where: SCUNTHORPE when: Thursday snippet: "If someone is going to commit suicide it does not seem logical that they cut all the risers [straps], switch on the automatic activation device [which opens the parachute if the skydiver fails to] and then carry out all the emergency drills in free fall," explains Tony Butler, an accident investigator with the British Parachute Association, quoted in The Guardian on Friday. "If you were going to do this to yourself, you would not go through all this." But on Friday, Mr Hilder`s girlfriend, 25 year-old Ruth Woodhouse, said there was "no way" he would have wanted to "disgrace the sport" in that way. [... more]

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