John Jones QC, a 48-year-old married father of two who worked at renowned legal chambers Doughty Street, was being treated for severe depression and had recently had his medication changed when he died at West Hampstead Thameslink station on April 18 this year.
He lived in Golders Green, and was staying as a voluntary patient at The Nightingale hospital in Marylebone in the weeks leading up to his death. The day before he died was a Sunday and Mr Jones had been allowed to visit his family.
A “brilliant” barrister who represented Julian Assange ended his life by leaping under a train after he was allowed to leave a private mental health hospital to go for a walk at 5am.
The inquest heard that Mr Jones decided to stop taking Chlonazepam, a benzodopiate, a couple of weeks before he died as the combination of medication he was taking was making him drowsy and unable to concentrate.
From the independent sixth-form college Mander Portman Woodward, London, he went to study philosophy, politics and economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and took master’s degrees in law at City University, London, and George Washington University, in the US capital. He was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1992.
On 18 April 2016, Jones was killed when he leapt in front of a train in West Hamstead, London. The lawyer, who suffered from “obsessive overthinking”, had been admitted to the private Nightingale Hospital in March, with a number of mental health issues which had been given a “working diagnosis” of bipolar disorder and anxiety by his psychiatrist.
The death of millionaire lawyer John Jones in April, who represented Wikileaks’ Julian Assange among others, is an apparent suicide that has friends, colleagues and clients asking “Why?”. With no evident reason to do so, and little reported in the media, the question of why he might have done so is increasing in intensity.
John Jones, a lawyer who specialised in extradition, war crimes and related matters and who worked with lawyers like George Clooney’s barrister wife Amal Clooney, was killed when he leapt in front of a train in West Hamstead in a death that police are not regarding as suspicious.
Two lawyers who represented WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange had died only a month apart.
Jones also worked with Assange alongside Hollywood actor George Clooney’s barrister wife, Amal Clooney. The 48-year-old lawyer left behind two sons, according to The Sun.
Ratner died leaving behind a legacy of advocacy for whistleblowers and U.S. government detainees . He was also a founding member of the Guantánamo Bay Bar Association, in which almost 500 attorneys provided pro-bono representation to detainees. It is known as “the largest mass defense effort in US history,” as reported by The Guardian.
A “brilliant” barrister who represented Julian Assange ended his life by leaping under a train after he was allowed to leave a private mental health hospital to go for a walk at 5am.
John Jones QC, a 48-year-old married father of two who worked at renowned legal chambers Doughty Street, was being treated for severe depression and had recently had his medication changed when he died at West Hampstead Thameslink station on April 18 this year. An inquest at St Pancras Coroner’s Court heard that the lawyer – who worked on high ...
He lived in Golders Green, and was staying as a voluntary patient at The Nightingale hospital in Marylebone in the weeks leading up to his death. The day before he died was a Sunday and Mr Jones had been allowed to visit his family. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was one of those represented by John Jones QC - Credit: PA Wire/Press Association ...
Mr Jones’ parents gave statements to say their son first displayed signs of mental disorder as a teenage schoolboy in the US.