The lawyer representing Molly Russell’s family at the inquest into the 14-year-old’s death by ‘an act of self-harm’ said she had to seek professional help after trawling through thousands of ‘hopeless’ posts while working on the case.
Merry Varney, who represented Molly’s father Ian Russell, told Woman’s Hour that she had to seek guidance on how to protect her own mental health because the content she was being exposed to during the case was so harmful, and said a consultant