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Threats over money pushed man to suicide
Mar 20 2008 by Lisa Jones, South Wales Echo
A BRIDGEND suicide victim was being threatened over money before his death.
Andrew Lloyd O’Neil’s sister told the Bridgend coroner that two men were trying to pressurise him into selling drugs.
He was found hanging in a disused house in Pembroke Terrace, Nantymoel, on September 19 by his sister Charlene and mother Michelle Chilcott.
Charlene told the court her brother had been acting “edgy and nervous” in the three months before his death and had been too frightened to report the threats to the police.
The court heard a man had been interviewed by police in relation to threats against Mr O’Neil but not charged.
Recording a suicide verdict, coroner Philip Walters said he was convinced the threats had affected Mr O’Neil.
The cause of death was asphyxia.
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