A farmer found dead in a slurry pit hours after changing his will committed suicide, a coroner has concluded.
John Charles Barnett, 90, from Tybroughton, near Whitchurch, was discovered on January 2, 2020, in the slurry pit at his farm on the Shropshire-Wales border, by a police diver. His overturned mobility scooter was a short distance away.Coroner John Gittins at an inquest in Ruthin recorded a conclusion of suicide.“I am satisfied this was a deliberate act on his part and he did so with the intention of bringing his life to an end.
Nigel Byrne, 50, told senior coroner, Mr John Gittins sitting at a court in Ruthin, North Wales, that he had started working at John Barnett’s farm from the age of 15. Solicitor Louise Eccleston said he was leaving a sum to Mr Byrne because the pensioner said he had been “such a good lad” but didn’t want him to have his house.
He suggested Mr Byrne “lost his temper” because he thought Mr Barnett had gone to change his will, something the farmworker denied.
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