A man who was convinced he was ugly hanged himself in a hospital toilet, an inquest heard.

Richard Jackson, 30, was found hanging from a pipe in the toilet of the accident and emergency department at Dewsbury District Hospital last July.

Psychiatrist Dr Adrienne Crockatt told the hearing that Mr Jackson, an unemployed carpet fitter, was convinced he was ugly, his nose was misshapen and he wanted plastic surgery - a feeling caused by his mental state.

After the inquest, his parents Susan and Kenneth said their son, pictured, had worked as a model within five years of his death, and was registered with a modelling agency in Huddersfield.

The Huddersfield inquest heard that Mr Jackson, of Oxford Drive, Gomersal, suffered a personality disorder and had visited the Priestley Unit for Mental Health at Dewsbury Hospital on a number of occasions last year. When psychiatrists tried to help him, he refused treatment, but sometimes became angry when he was not helped. Coroner Roger Whittaker said Mr Jackson had been unable to communicate with his parents, which was part of the disorder he suffered.

Mrs Jackson asked Dr Crockatt why no one could have helped Mr Jackson.

"He was generally difficult, obstructive and awkward and didn't want to go along with any of the things suggested to him," said Dr Crockatt.

On the day Mr Jackson hanged himself, Dr Edward Walker, a specialist in emergency medicine at Dewsbury Hospital, overheard him talking to a nurse in the accident and emergency department. He had threatened to jump off a bridge and told Dr Walker he wanted to be admitted to the Priestley Unit.

"I told Richard I didn't believe he was clinically depressed. He didn't tell me at that time that he was going to kill himself," said Dr Walker.

Priestley Unit senior charge nurse Christopher Bontoft saw Mr Jackson on the morning he hanged himself. Mr Jackson told Mr Bontoft that, if he didn't admit him to the unit, he would kill himself.

"That was a choice that only he could make. We can't actively stop a person doing so," said Mr Bontoft. "I didn't believe he was actually contemplating suicide."

PC Kevin Catmull found him hanging from pipe work with his belt tied around his neck. There were foot marks on the toilet seat where Mr Jackson had climbed up and there was a bin in the sink so he could gain enough height to tie the belt over the beam. He was taken to the resuscitation department and then to intensive care where he died eight days later on July 9.

Mr Whittaker recorded the verdict that Mr Jackson had killed himself.