What did you do the first time you came home, wanting to play your new Wii, but couldn’t because the TV was occupied? Jake Roberts, a 13-year-old boy from Scarborough, North Yorkshire (UK) saw his sister watching TV, threw a tantrum, went upstairs, and probably did something a little more extreme than any of you.

The first thing I saw when I walked in to Jake’s bedroom was all the paper he had ripped up on the floor during his tantrum. The door was open with his bed to my left behind the door. I was going to tell him off when I turned. It took me a few seconds to register what I was seeing. His school tie was round his neck and he was hung from his cabin bed. I tried to lift him and his tie was attached to a bar on the bed.

Jake died in February. This hasn’t been the first Wii-related fatality, but hopefully it will be the last.

Telegraph