AN ALSAGER man hanged himself after hearing messages on the radio, an inquest heard this week.
The body of mentally ill David William Jones, aged 29 from Grove Court, was found by a man walking his dog on the Salt Line railway track on December 3 last year.
An inquest held at Crewe magstrates yesterday, Wednesday, heard how David had been treated for his illness for six years and admitted to Leighton Hospital days before his death.
In his statement read by coroner John Hibbert, his father Ellis Jones said: "The morning he died he gave us cash, photos and letters and said he was going to end his life.
"I told him not to but he said he was going to do it because of some messages he heard on the wireless.
"Then he took a length of blue rope and told me not stop him.
"He walked off towards Hassall Green and I followed him asking him not to do it but eventually I lost sight of him and was later told what had happened."
The coroner recorded the suicide verdict with the cause of death as asphyxiation.
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