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Suicide MP ‘left note warning wife not to enter’

TV executive assaulted by official during Cameron era

- BY NICOLA METHVEN TV Editor & ANDREW GREGORY Political Editor nicola.methven@mirror.co.uk

HIT Jenna Coleman in Victoria

In my best Lady Bracknell voice I said, ‘Are you actually touching my breast?’

DAISY GOODWIN TV EXEC ON HER ASSAULT IN DOWNING STREET SUICIDE Carl Sargeant POLITICIAN Carl Sargeant hanged himself four days after being sacked over groping claims, an inquest was told yesterday.

The former Welsh Assembly minister, 49, was found dead by his wife Bernadette at their home.

With other relatives, she fought desperatel­y to revive the father of two for 20 to 30 minutes.

Mrs Sargeant, 48, had gone downstairs last Tuesday morning and found a note from her husband attached to the utility room door.

It told her not to go in but to call the police. Coroner John Gittins said: “She did go in and found her husband on the floor of the ‘lean to’, which was off the utility room, after an apparent act of self harm.”

A postmortem said hanging was the provisiona­l cause of death.

Four days earlier Mr Sargeant, from Connah’s Quay, North Wales, MEETING Downing Street

TV writer Daisy Goodwin has revealed she was “groped in No10” as she attended a business meeting with a government official.

had been fired from the Welsh Assembly’s Cabinet over claims of “unwanted attention, inappropri­ate touching or groping”.

The coroner said he would speak to First Minister Carwyn Jones to ask if Mr Sargeant’s mental state was taken into considerat­ion.

 ??  ?? I’M NOT AMUSED Hit Victoria writer Daisy Goodwin
I’M NOT AMUSED Hit Victoria writer Daisy Goodwin

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