Dad kills himself after daughter is taken to live 150 miles away.
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A father hanged himself after his young daughter was moved 150 miles away and was unable to see her, an inquest heard.
He was found dead in a caravan in the garden of the home he shared with his mother and stepfather.
Mr Brown had been due to face court and was warned he could be jailed after he broke a court order banning him from contacting the child’s mother, who he split up with in 2014.
He claimed he did not have proper visitation. Tried to get a ruling in family court in October 2017.
In February last year he was detained and kept in police cells after BREACHING a protection and harassment order made against his ex-partner following a Face Time call and was ordered to appear in court on June 5.
This sentence doesn’t make any sense:
“He had been told he could be looking at six months custodial but once he had seen his solicitor and found out that she was being called and they had been looking at the evidence on her phone things were looking better for him.”
Mr Brown had made several previous attempts on his life including on one occasion walking into the sea in December the same year.
He had his anti-depressants stopped after an attempted overdose but was referred to a mental health team.
His sister said: “The mental health team said they would ring him, but his phone was on him when he went into the sea it was destroyed.”
Then because of the harassment orders, he was constantly getting his phone taken by the police.’
This doesn’t make sense either.
Assistant Coroner said “ I don’t doubt it was hard for him to run his own business, I know that he was upset that he wasn’t seeing his little girl regularly.
‘It must have been on his mind that he had this pending magistrates’ proceedings, but I accept he wasn’t facing any period in custody and he could have gone through to courts to see his little girl.
‘This young man has been troubled with mental health problems for many years.’
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