Posts tagged ‘Bedfordshire’

April 13, 2011

British woman sets herself on fire in train toilet

[Kevin Richardson, UK Unusual Events Contributor]

MailOnline: Rachel James apparently committed suicide today in train toilet by igniting herself.  The blonde woman, 43, from Uxbridge, Middlesex was reported to have kissed an elderly lady on the train before putting herself on fire.

She had carried a canister of gas down the train aisle on the train going to London when it came up to the Leighton Buzzard station in Bedforshire and sat down in the toilet and ignited herself.

No one else was injured, but the trains had been disrupted.

Commenters on the story on MailOnline seem to be angry that the woman had chosen this method of suicide which had caused the trains to be delayed.