A man killed himself after running up debts when his business collapsed, an inquest heard.

John Walker, 58, died inside a car at the garage next to his flat in Slenningford Road, Crossflatts. The engine of the car had been left running and a pipe from the exhaust was fitted through a rear window.

In a statement read to the Bradford hearing last Friday, Mr Walker's 86-year-old mother told how he had spent 30 years working in several well-paid jobs in Hong Kong and Nigeria. After he returned to Britain in 1991 he set up a business as a mechanical engineering consultant, but the venture failed and he ended up with large debts.

A post mortem revealed that death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Coroner Roger Whittaker recorded a suicide verdict.

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