Tragic loss of life of Dan Kirby was suicide, coroner guidelines

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

His father Kevin Kirby informed 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 Vehicles 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 prior to now, 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 had been in a position to be with him whereas he remained on a ventilator earlier than he sadly died the next morning, the BBC studies.

Information of his sudden loss of life prompted a river of tributes from fellow used automobile sellers and motor racing figures.

A put up mortem beforehand decided that his accidents had been per hanging.

The inquest heard he had struggled with dependancy prior to now and was receiving personal psychiatric and psychological well being help, and coroner Michelle Brown stated Kirby was “struggling” after the liquidation of one in every of his companies. She concluded that his loss of life was suicide.

A voluntary liquidator had been appointed to Commerce Worth Vehicles in Essex every week earlier than Kirby’s loss of life.

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