A trainee teacher hanged himself at his home, an inquest has heard.
49-year-old Gavin Wonnacott, who was also a local church bell ringer, of Mary Street, Bovey Tracey had drunk several pints of cider and his blood alcohol level was just over the legal top limit for driving.
His wife Lisa told an Exeter inquest that his low mood had improved because he was doing teacher training and on the weekend of his death he was 'surrounded by piles of paperwork he was actively working through'.
His wife and daughter were away on the February weekend he died and he had not turned up for his shift as a barman at a local pub on the Saturday evening nor bell ringing on the Sunday morning. And he had not answered phone calls from his wife.
The police discovered him hanging at the top of the stair.
His widow said he was about to start his first term as a trainee teacher at a Torquay school and was 'optimistic and positive about being a teacher' after 'feeling very low about not working and being in the house'.
The Greater Devon coroner Dr Elizabeth Earland made a narrative conclusion and said she was satisfied that he hanged himself.
