Mum's horror as son found dead at Scots Airbnb 'encouraged to take own life online'

07.03.2022 - 19:05 / dailyrecord.co.uk

A heartbroken mum whose son was found dead in a Scots cottage believes he'd been brainwashed into taking his own life with a stranger.

Angela Stevens' son, Brett, travelled from Tunstall to Scotland to meet with a woman he had been communicating with online at an Airbnb in 2019.

But Brett, who was just 28 at the time, would never return home. The pair ended their own lives by swallowing a lethal substance.

His mum has since learned that he had been spent time on online forums that promote suicide and methods of suicide.

They also help people link up, in order to take their own lives together, reports StokeonTrentLive.

Brett told his mum he was going on holiday to Norway when he left in November 2019 that and she would see him when he returned in December.

But when he failed to come home she issued a missing person report for her son, who had been diagnosed with autism when he was 15.

Brett was found dead having taken his life in a holiday cottage in Stonehaven with the 24-year-old woman he had met up with, who was understood to have flown over from the Netherlands.

Mrs Stevens said: "Brett had told me he was going on holiday. Personally, we were going through a bad time and he was having meltdowns because of his anxiety. He was worrying about things.

“He came to me and said he felt like he needed to get away for a bit and have a holiday. I thought it would be a good idea for him to take a break.

“I thought he was going to stay with friends in Norway but he actually got in a taxi, went to Manchester Airport and met a lady there who flew in from the Netherlands. They got on the train up to Aberdeen on November 22.

“They spent ten days there. He was due to come home on December 5. When he didn’t arrive at 3.30pm, I was texting