THE GUARDIAN: Inquest records suicide verdict and finds fashion designer killed himself while balance of mind was disturbed
The fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who was struggling with depression and the death of his mother, hanged himself earlier this year after taking cocaine, sleeping pills and tranquillisers, an inquest heard today.
Recording a verdict of suicide, the Westminster coroner, Dr Paul Knapman, said: "It's such a pity for a man who, from a modest start, climbed to the top of his profession only to die in such tragedy."
Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed". >>> Sam Jones | Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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