TV KYLE ‘MAY HAVE CAUSED GUEST DEATH’
Coroner wants show lie test answers
TV HOST Jeremy Kyle “may have caused or contributed” to the death of programme guest Steve Dymond.
Steve is suspected of committing suicide after failing a lie detector test on the show, a pre-inquest review has heard.
The preliminary hearing is being held into the death of the 63-year-old, who died of a morphine overdose and a heart problem at his home in Hampshire, seven days after he filmed The Jeremy Kyle Show last year.
He took a lie detector test on the programme in a bid to prove he had not cheated on his ex- fiancee Jane Callaghan. Coroner Jason Pegg said he has made Kyle an “interested person” for the inquest, stating the presenter is someone “who may have caused or contributed to the death of Stephen Dymond”.
He added: “It might seem ludicrous not to have Mr Kyle to give evidence to give his take on the situation.”
Counsel for Steve’s family, Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC, told the Winchester hearing that St e ve became “distressed” after he failed the lie detector test. She said he had gone on the show to “prove his fidel i ty ” . Gallagher said after the result was announced, the audience “booed and jeered” at him and he was “called a failure by the presenter”.
She said Kyle was “in his face” and even when he was “at the point of collapsing, he was still being heckled”.
She said Steve sought to leave through a side door but found it locked, and she added: “He couldn’t escape the heckling. He was on his hands and knees because he thought he was going to pass out from the stress.”
Gallagher said his state of mind was known by the crew on the show, with a message sent on a WhatsApp group stating: “Just so you know, he’s still crying, he has just said he wishes he was dead.
“Just giving you the heads up.”
The hearing continues.