Dangeorous dangerous dangerous precedent!
He's only 18, for all anyone knows in a few years he'll be functioning as a normal person. Plenty of people are depressed, traumatised etc and meet that one person onr group of peole who turn it all around for them.
If every kid who was bullied and is now in a bad state could succeed like Mr Cox, the dept is going to go broke! Thousands of kids are bullied every year and traumatised by it!
I'm sure he's got issues but honestly... it's one of those things that's a case of suck it up and move on.
How ridiculous that a victim of childhood bullying gets a bigger settlement than your average victim of serious crime
It's like the whole adhd debate - no one argues that it exists and some people might need certain treatemtn, but there are other options and also misdiagnosis. I'm sure he's depressed and had been diagnosed as such, but had he really exhausted every possible treatment option? I'm sure that taking a disability pension and living in "computer land" isn't the only option he has.
Jokingly i know, but a lot of friends at uni have raised the argument of contributory negligence lol - in jest, but it is a serious point - i highly doubt he never did anything to exacerbate the situation.
Its shitty that they got the response they did when they asked for help but a payout this big is a little nuts.