'Amazing' dad, 24, found dead in hotel during weekend away with girlfriend
20.07.2022 - 11:29
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
An 'amazing' dad took his own life after splitting up with his girlfriend during a weekend away in Blackpool, a coroner has found.
Daryl McWilliam travelled to the seaside resort from his hometown of Kilmarnock, Scotland, with his girlfriend of 12 months Natalie Jones. During the course of Saturday, February 26, the couple visited Wetherspoons for something to eat before returning to their room at Garvey's Promenade Hotel.
After spending some time in their room the pair then went back out and visited three pubs in the town centre. Towards the end of the night Daryl, 24, became increasingly intoxicated and after becoming separated from Natalie he sent her a text and told her: "I don't want to be with you anymore."
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Natalie made several attempts to contact Daryl who eventually returned to the hotel at around midnight. The couple had an argument, during which Daryl damaged Natalie's phone and other belongings in the room, before she started to pack her things into their car.
When Natalie went back to the room Daryl wasn't there and so she went downstairs to the bar to look for him. A short while later Natalie went back up to the room where she found Daryl unconscious.
Paramedics and police were called but despite extensive resuscitation efforts Daryl, of Seright Square, was pronounced dead at 1.37am on February 27. The cause of death was given as hanging with a pathologist reporting that Daryl, who was born in Irving, would have lost consciousness in between one and 10 seconds.
An inquest at Blackpool Town Hall today (Tuesday July 19) heard that Daryl, a pipe-fitter at Kilmaurs engineering firm A&L Mechanical Installations, had