A father-of-five depressed during the lockdown last year phoned round his children 'to say goodbye' just a few days before hanging himself in a secluded Salford wood, an inquest has heard.
But it took two weeks for the body of 56-year-old James Duncan Spary's body to be found in Campbell Road Wood in Swinton, assistant coroner for Manchester West Stephen Teasdale was told.
James went missing from his home in Wellstock Lane, Little Hulton, on June 16 2020, but it was not until June 27 that a police dog trained to find diseased people located him in the dense wood.
Daughter Beth, 22, told the hearing she had informed the police where her father might be - three minutes' walk from the access path to the area - when she reported him missing on
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