‘Troubled’ joiner hanged himself

A‘CONSIDERABLY troubled’ joiner was found hanged in a garage, an inquest heard.

Stuart Storr, 49, was found dead at his home on Staveley Close in Bacup on March 18 this year. Burnley Coroners Court heard Mr Storr had returned earlier that day from his parents home in Barnsley and was ‘really hyped up’.

However he later said that he was ‘fed up’, the hearing was told.

Pathologist Dr Mark Sissons said the cause of death was hanging.

A post-mortem examination found Mr Storr had slightly under the legal drink driving limit of alcohol in his system.

The inquest heard that Mr Storr had ‘money worries’ and ‘had got into a bit of a habit of not opening letters as he thought they might be bad news’.

His partner Jeanette Thompson said that he had ‘wanted to change his job’ and was ‘fed up with work’.

In a statement read out a court, she described Mr Storr as ‘if he was on a sugar high and in a good mood’ when he had returned from his parents.

The inquest heard that he was ‘really hyped up’ and ‘talking about holidays and his daughters’.

Later in the evening Ms Thompson came downstairs and asked her daughter if she had seen Mr Storr, the inquest heard.

Coroner Richard Taylor told the hearing that he was found shortly afterwards.

The inquest was told that Mr Storr had ‘not expressed suicidal thoughts before but he was quite down about the debts’.

Mr Taylor recorded a conclusion of suicide.

He said: “It’s quite clear that Mr Storr was considerably troubled by a number of matters.

“There’s been a breakdown in his marriage, his partner was then diagnosed with depression, his father was very poorly and has since passed away and his brother was also very poorly.

“He had debts and problems at work and with his job. It seems that he had difficulty in coping with all those difficulties.

“Given the background and what difficulties he had I have no alternative than to return a conclusion of suicide.”

‘He had debts and problems at work’