A BRAVE policewoman has told an inquest how she struggled to talk down a former holiday park worker who threatened to throw himself from the top of a car park.

But despite the pleadings of PC Heather Standing, Anthony Bilton,42, of Barnby Gate, Newark, fell to his death from the Balmoral NCP park in Scarborough town centre last September, an inquest was told.

He told the policewoman that he wanted to join his mother who had died a few months earlier.

Mr Bilton asked PC Standing to post letters he had written and put into a bag at his side, along with his funeral arrangements.

Terrence Stafford, a mental health nurse, told the inquest that Mr Bilton had been referred to his crisis response unit three weeks earlier, but the day before his death he had been discharged.

He said Mr Bilton had been distressed because he had lost his job at Flamingo Land and with it his accommodation.

A verdict was recorded that he killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed.