Suicide student ‘sought advice on gay web forum’

Tyler Clementi, the gay student who jumped to his death from New York’s George Washington Bridge last week after his Rutgers University roommate posted video of him having sex with another man live on the internet, may have sought counsel on a gay internet forum, it has emerged.

Clementi (pictured) killed himself on September 22 after Dharun Ravi and another student, Molly Wei, tweeted about and filmed his assignations – the second time streaming the video live on a website.

Now a thread on the gay internet forum JustUsBoys.com has been flagged up in the media after they appeared to describe an experience remarkably similar to Clementi's.

The user, identified as cit2mo, seeks advice about his roommate's "obnoxious" behaviour, and, giving no hint that he was planning to take his own life, appears to resolve to report the offender to university authorities.

The messages were posted within 24 hours between the mornings of September 21-22 and a JustUsBoys.com site administrator has confirmed that cit2mo appears to have used a computer with a Rutgers University IP address.

It had already been reported that Ravi first tweeted on September 19: "Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into Molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."

On September 21 he again reportedly tweeted: "Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it's happening again."

The forum postings of cit2mo appear to provide the other side of the story. On the morning of September 21, he writes: "So the other night I had a guy over. I had talked to my roommate that afternoon and he had said it would be fine with him. I checked his twitter today. He tweeted that I was using the room (which is obnoxious enough). AND that he went into somebody else's room and remotely turned on his webcam and saw me making out with a guy."

"I could just be more careful next time… make sure to turn the camera away, but… I'm kinda pissed at him (rightfully so, I think, no?)"

The posts also reveal a frustration at the attitude of Ravi's Twitter followers. "And the fact that the people he was with saw my making out with a guy as the scandal whereas I mean come on… he was SPYING ON ME," writes cit2mo. "Do they see nothing wrong with this? Unsettling to say the least."

Cit2mo's posts also introduce an element of doubt as to whether Ravi succeeded in filming him the second time: "I turned off and unplugged his computer, went crazy looking for the other hidden cams and then had a great time."

The morning after, September 22, cit2mo says he has spoken a university official who "seemed to take it seriously".

But at 8.42pm the same day, Clementi wrote on his Facebook account: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry." ·