A SURREY office worker booked a holiday let in West Somerset where he then took his own life, an inquest has heard.

Somerset assistant coroner Vanessa McKinlay was told that Alexander Andrew Charles Speirs had a history of anxiety and self-harm for which he had received mental health services support.

However, he had appeared to be well in the years before his death.

Mr Speirs, who was aged 24, from Wallington, booked a holiday annex for two nights in April of last year on a farm on Steart Marshes between Stogursey and Combwich.

He was found hanged on April 3 and declared dead by paramedics who were called to the scene.

Ms McKinlay, sitting in the Old Municipal Buildings, Taunton, said: “Alex left a note which made clear that his intention was that his life should end.”

She concluded that the death of Carshalton born Mr Speirs was ‘suicide’.