Jody Lee ROBB · Prevention of Future Deaths report

On 14/04/2025 12:38 an investigation was commenced into the death of Jody Lee ROBB
30/04/1993. The investigation concluded at the end of the inquest on 26/06/2025 11:15.
The conclusion of the inquest was that Died at 23.03 on 08 April 2025 on the carriageway
of Station Approach, ████████ having taken deliberate steps to end her own
life

Died at 23.03 on 08 April 2025 on the carriageway of Station Approach, ████████
having taken deliberate steps to end her own life ████████.

I read and heard evidence from the investigating CID officer who had reviewed all available
CCTV in relation to the incident. She reported that Jody had arrived on the south bound
platform just over an hour before she jumped. She sat on a bench for a few minutes before
making her way onto ████████. She was on the
████████ for about one hour before she actually did so. A total of 11 trains passed her, north
and southbound, during that hour. No report was made or received of her presence there
by train crews of station staff attending on the station platforms for arrivals and departures.
████████. My concerns are:

1. Access to the ████████ from the platform is not sufficiently barred or impeded to the
public. It is clear by means of signage that the public must not go beyond the end of the
platform. There are what appear to be some sort of wheeled access steps overs on the
platform at and around the fence at its end. But there is nothing to prevent even a
moderately mobile person from going around the fence and ████████. The main
resource preventing access is human by means of station staff intervention, which is
necessarily reliant on their presence at the relevant time;
2. ████████ are not ones designed to prevent, impede or discourage
attempts at suicide
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3. Eleven trains passed Jody, from north and south, while she was on ████████ during
the hour before she jumped. No reports were made by any train crew of her presence. It
would be exceedingly the available evidence and unfair to infer that train crews and/or
station staff deliberately or negligently ignored her presence there. More likely is that she
was simply not visible. It was dark, being at night in April, and Jody was wearing relatively
dark clothing. However, she seems to have been discernible on CCTV and from the British
Transport Police images I have seen taken from approximately where a driver might have
been placed, it is plausible to suggest that she might have been visible, even laterally, from
the cab of a train either slowing to stop at the station or pulling out from it, even in
deliberately enhanced lighting on the viaduct. Obviously, had a report been made of her
presence, some type of intervention could have been attempted ████████████████████
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