My thoughts precisely. Anyone with a titter of wit or a modicum of savvy would have heard alarm bells sounding at that point and not touched the report with a barge pole. Not Sky News though, they were quite prepared to air the altercation at all costs and we all know what that cost turned out to be! Oh no...nobody is to blame but Brenda has a rather hollow sound to it imo.
Take note: If accosted by man from Sky with microphone, say nought and smile broadly!
Apart from insisting on proper make-up and sympathetic lighting ... I would have no hesitation with giving someone from Sky an interview. I am not ashamed of anything I have said on the internet.
Brenda declined the offer of a more structured interview where she could have negotiated that her face be pixilated and the doorstepping shot not used because it would identify her home.
To gain an insight into her motivations for posting as she had on twitter, in the midst of what was a hot story at the time, I think that might have been accomplished particularly as she had had an amicable conversation with Martin Brunt in her home.
Then hindsight is an exact science ... Martin Brunt who was ignorant of her medical history could not have been expected to think that she intended suicide.
Her son ... who did know her medical history and who had spoken with her did not anticipate her suicide.
Of the successful suicides I have heard about, both those with a history and those without, the majority leave their nearest and dearest baffled as to why.
It is a measure of the FB harpies that they choose to attack Brenda Leyland's family at a time of great trauma.
