Greenpeace chief ’s Tube death suicide
The former boss of Greenpeace stepped in front of a Tube train after visiting his mother who was suffering from dementia, an inquest heard.
Stephen Tindale, 54, executive director of the environmental body from 2000 to 2005, had been standing next to his father, Gordon, when he took his own life at Golders Green Underground station in north London on July 1.
The pair had been to see his mother, Sonia, in a care home.
Once an influential backroom figure in the Labour Party, Mr Tindale had suffered from depression for several years and had survived being hit by a train in an earlier suicide attempt.
Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner John Taylor said: “There is little evidence this was an accident.”