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The HSBC banker who lost his autistic daughter to suicide: ‘I turned my father of the bride speech into her eulogy’

Jonathan Scott-Lee, who himself has autism and ADHD, on how he’s coping with the grief of losing his 16-year-old

The HSBC banker who lost his autistic daughter to suicide: ‘I turned my father of the bride speech into her eulogy’

HSBC banker Jonathan Scott-Lee had drafted a “father of the bride” speech for his 16-year-old autistic daughter Caitlyn, who took her own life in April last year.

A month later, that draft formed the foundation of the eulogy Scott-Lee gave at his teenager’s funeral.

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