Coroner rules Speed death may have been an accident

A coroner ruled on Monday that former Wales football coach Gary Speed may have killed himself accidentally.

In a narrative verdict, Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg gave the cause of death as hanging but said "the evidence does not sufficiently determine whether this was intentional or accidental".

The inquest at Warrington Coroner's Court heard that Speed texted his wife days before his death and "talked in terms of taking his life".

The couple also "had words" on the night before he was found dead after they had been to a dinner party at a friend's house.

Speed was found hanged at his Cheshire home on November 27th last year by his wife Louise.

But Mr Rheinberg said today, in a narrative verdict, that the football manager may have "nodded off" while sitting with a cable around his neck on the stairs in his garage.

 
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