When Harrison De George didn’t turn up to his teaching placement one morning in December 2020, alarm bells should have rung.
The 23-year-old had been studying for his Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at Manchester Metropolitan University, when he failed to show up to teach his 11am maths class at a local college.
Harrison’s absence was not relayed back to the university, and an email from a tutor asking his whereabouts at 4pm that day went unanswered. Harrison’s flatmate found him unresponsive in their Salford apartment later that day having taken his own life.
The university only became aware of his absence when Harrison’s family called them the next day to inform them that he had passed away.
