A DEPRESSED father hanged himself after jeopardising his relationship with his partner by having an affair with his best friend's wife.

A Truro inquest heard how the body of David Brown was found at his home in Pendarves Road, Falmouth on July 15 by his stepfather after he failed to pick up his four-year-old son from school.

The 33-year-old had tied a length of blue washing line to a beam in the roof space and the other around his neck. At some point the rope had snapped and he'd fallen to the floor.

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