✝️ Hope Barden, age 21 – March 15 2018, Burton-Upon-Trent, England, United Kingdom 🏴💔
Hope was an adrenaline junkie who completed a skydive. She completed her foundation degree in adolescent mental health at the University of Worcester and became a support worker for people with learning disabilities in Burton. In a bid to supplement her income, she began working in the „unregulated“ online adult film industry and used several adult webcamming platforms.
Hope died of Asphyxia after carrying out a degrading sex act on the internet for a pub landlord (King Arthur`s Arms) over 250 miles away. Jerome Dangar, age 45, from Tintagel, Cornwall, was online when Hope died, but made no attempt to raise the alarm.
The coroner ruled: „The extent of his encouragement to her to carry out this act and his failure to report appropriately when she lost consciousness makes it clear that the male was so subjectively reckless as to amount to manslaughter“
Dangar admitted nine charges of possessing extreme pornography of acts that showed a „pre-occupation with strangulation, stabbing, torture, asphyxiation and death“. Dangar was jailed for 15 months for possessing „the worst images it is possible to imagine“. A pathologist who examined Dangar’s extreme pornography collection said there was a strong possibility the videos weren’t staged and some of the subjects died during the filming process.This suggests other victim’s of Dangar’s twisted fetishes may lie out there. Police were due to interview him over his involvement in Hope’s death, but Dangar was found dead in jail and never faced further charges.