John Charles Barnett's overturned mobility scooter was found on the edge of a slurry lagoon in 2020.
A coroner has ruled a verdict of suicide after John Charles Barnett's body was found in a slurry in ShropshireNinety-year-old John Charles Barnett's overturned mobility scooter was found at the edge of a slurry pit in January 2020, an inquest at Ruthin found.Coroner John Gittins for North Wales, East and Central recorded his cause of death as immersion in slurry and concluded a verdict of suicide.
He also considered his actions at the time, such as the extra one hug he gave his daughter that afternoon, and the magnitude of the day's events, "putting his affairs in order". She described Mr Barnett as a person who was "full of fun, likeable and chatty", who had "never seemed low" and she said though her opinion was that he has "fluctuating capacity", she had no mental health concerns about him.
He said he did not know about his plans to travel to see a solicitor in Chester with his son and daughter later that day, telling the inquest he only realised he had gone out later in the afternoon. He said he was "anxious and upset" and rang a neighbour, Robert Millington, to help in the search for Mr Barnett, and he went to fetch the farm loader which had bright spotlights.
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