A "caring" and "well mannered" young dad killed himself after battling depression and anxiety despite his family believing he had "turned things around".

Daniel Holt was found hanged by former partner and mother of his child, Samantha Tune, when she visited his home in Westfield Avenue, Goole, to check on his dogs while he was supposed to be at work.

An inquest on Monday heard the 27-year-old had been suffering from anxiety and depression for several months, but while he admitted he had suicidal thoughts he told a mental health practitioner he "would not act on them".

"He had a low mood and would get angry and stay up and play games all night and would sleep in the next day, meaning he would struggle to go to work," his dad, Stephen Holt, told the hearing.

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"We tried to get him to go to the doctors because there was obviously something wrong. He was given medication but he refused to take them and wanted to manage it himself."

Ms Tune, who found Mr Holt dead in the loft of his home on February 9, had been in a relationship for four years and had a nine-month-old son, Despite separating in December 2017, the inquest heard Ms Tune would accompany Mr Holt to his appointments with his GP and mental health practitioner.

She told the court Mr Holt would threaten to commit suicide regularly and one time had even gone into the loft threatening to take his own life.

But Mr Holt was discharged twice from the Emotional Wellbeing Service after he failed to attend appointments, and had undergone an assessment with a mental health practitioner.

Hull Coroner's Court
Hull Coroner's Court

Mental health practitioner, Christopher Banda, said: "We received a referral letter and assessed him two days later on October 14 2017.

"It was obvious at the time that he was experiencing symptoms of depressive symptoms. He was socially isolated, wasn't going to work and was clearly suffering financial problems."

Despite his symptoms, My Holt was deemed "low risk" and was discharged back to his GP. Mr Banda said: "He had said his son, dogs and partner were the protective factors and although he was low in mood and often had thoughts he would not act on them."

Mr Holt was then referred for CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), although he said it was difficult to "ascertain a pathway" for Mr Holt as he was erratic in taking his anti-depressant medication.

Hull Coroner's Court.
Hull Coroner's Court.

Mr Banda said: "It was difficult to ascertain. While trying to get things into context at that point we saw an emotional reaction to what was going on at the time. My advice to him was if he was feeling this way was to continue taking the medication so we have a baseline to see if other forms of treatment can be put in place.

"The pathway was to attend CBT and continue taking his medication."

Following his assessment, Mr Holt began working again and his father said he believed his son had "turned things around" before his death on February 9.

Assistant coroner Michael Mellun gave Mr Holt's cause of death as "hanging". He said: "I can conclude that his death was suicide based on the balance of probability. I conclude that he did intend to die as a number of reasons were there. He climbed into the loft and he wasn't expecting to be discovered so when he did hang himself on this occasion, he wasn't expecting to be saved or persuaded. He died intending to do so.

"Daniel's sad death was due to suicide and that is the conclusion I will record.

"I offer the family and Samantha my very sincere condolences."

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