AN unemployed psychiatric nurse hanged himself after barricading himself into his bedroom.

Graham Shelley left a note which included the line: "I cannot do with this any more.''

Deputy Teesside Coroner Gordon Hetherington told a Middlesbrough inquest that the 42-year-old father of one had "unfounded and quite irrational'' worries about debts and a fear that someone was following him.

His concerned family had tried to get Mr Shelley a doctor's appointment, but because Mr Shelley had only just moved back to Teesside after working at a hospital in Brent, he had to re-register. He hanged himself before a doctor could see him.

The inquest heard that though Mr Shelley had separated from his wife and moved into his mother Margaret's home in Laburnam Road, Brotton, he still talked to her.

Recording a verdict that Mr Shelley killed himself in November last year, while the balance of his mind was disturbed, Mr Hetherington said: "Although he would have appeared to have done his best to conceal it from his friends, his family and, in particular, his wife, saw Mr Shelley was suffering from depression.''