Tragic dying of Dan Kirby was suicide, coroner guidelines

Struggles together with his psychological well being and the demise of considered one of his companies have been cited amongst causes for motor retailer and racer Dan Kirby to take his personal life, an inquest has decided.

His father Kevin Kirby advised Chelmsford Coroner’s Courtroom final week that his beneficiant son Dan “was serving to different folks proper as much as the very finish”, illustrating his beneficiant nature, “and but the one one who wanted that was sadly himself”.

Dan Kirby, founding father of Commerce Worth Automobiles in Wickford, Essex and co-founder of brokerage Octane Finance, tragically died in September. The businessman and part-time racing driver, who had competed within the British Touring Automobile Championships previously, was discovered unresponsive within the grounds of Hyde Corridor close to Chelmsford only a month earlier than his thirty eighth birthday.

He was rushed by air ambulance paramedics to hospital, the place among the father of two’s household have been capable of be with him whereas he remained on a ventilator earlier than he sadly died the next morning, the BBC reviews.

Information of his sudden dying prompted a river of tributes from fellow used automotive sellers and motor racing figures.

A put up mortem beforehand decided that his accidents have been in step with hanging.

The inquest heard he had struggled with dependancy previously and was receiving non-public psychiatric and psychological well being help, and coroner Michelle Brown stated Kirby was “struggling” after the liquidation of considered one of his companies. She concluded that his dying was suicide.

A voluntary liquidator had been appointed to Commerce Worth Automobiles in Essex per week earlier than Kirby’s dying.

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