Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox A teacher with "a kind heart" killed himself in woodland near to a school, an inquest heard.
Highly respected Lee Charles Sims, who taught science, disappeared from his home on the afternoon of February 22 this year. The 45-year-old dad-of-two from Hall Road, in the village of Scarisbrick, near Ormskirk, was reported missing by his wife, Jessica, at 6.30pm that day, after she had been unable to contact him by phone, Lancashire Live reports.
The couple's children had alerted her at work to say they did not know where he was. At an inquest at Preston Coroner’s Court Assistant Coroner Richard Taylor said a search was launched for Mr Sims amid
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