Young man knifed himself to death after mistakenly believing his vest was 'stab-proof'

A popular young man fatally stabbed himself in the chest mistakenly believing the vest he wore was stab-proof, his inquest heard. Jordan Easton was in the kitchen at one of his friends’ parents on 23 August last year – just five days after his 22nd birthday – when he turned a knife on himself to demonstrate the “stab-proof” nature of the abdominal protection he had on. He suffered a chest stab wound, and was taken to the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton.
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