UNITED KINGDOM
This is Cornwall
A RETIRED priest found dead in the sea off Padstow was anxious and depressed in the months leading up to his death, and was concerned that the Jimmy Savile police inquiry was spreading to Cornwall.
The Reverend Barry Kinsmen left a suicide note at his home in the town. Two friends found it after becoming concerned when he failed to turn up for a lunch together. …
Giving evidence to the Cornwall Coroner, Dr Emma Carlyon, the Reverend Canon Christopher Malkinson, one of the two friends who found the suicide note, said Mr Kinsmen had been depressed and anxious in the months leading up to his death, and no longer wanted to preach or deliver eulogies in church.
“Barry was very concerned about the amount of coverage the Jimmy Savile enquiry was getting, especially the fact the enquiry was spreading to Cornwall,” Mr Malkinson said in a statement.
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