Terry Sue-Patt (29 September 1964 – May 2015)
The death of Terry Sue-Patt at the age of 50 in a flat all alone, is truly a sad one. Apparently his body was left alone for two months and so must have decomposed during that period.
Terry Sue-Patt had been a successful child actor appearing in one of the best and ground breaking children’s program called ‘Grange Hill’, which was about a London secondary school and the issues that the children came across. A lot of parents at the time were not happy that a children’s program dealt with issues such as bullying, sex, drugs, poverty and other serious but true situations.
Terry Sue-Patt was the first person seen at the start of the program and his ‘cheeky chappy’ character proved popular with the youngsters at the time. Terry Sue-Patt later went on to play the tragic comic part of Yusef in the TV film ‘The Firm’. In the firm he played a soccer hooligan who does not realise that his is in a downward slide in which he has no way to recover and it is a dead end existence just like the reality he is living in.
This brings the to fore the manner of the sad death of Terry Sue-Patt. It seems his body was in his flat for 2 months before being discovered. With all the technological changes in the last 25 years and the rise of social media, Terry Sue-Patt was effectively on his own.
Terry Sue-Patt was by all accounts well liked and very talented actor and artist, yet he ended his life without the people who loved him and although connected via social media it was not enough. Virtual reality has it limits.