A missing man found dead in Norfolk sent disturbing images to his employer before taking his own life, an inquest has heard.

Marcin Jakobiak's body was discovered in a wooded area near Thetford, close to where police located his abandoned car while conducting a search for him.

An inquest into his death heard the 42-year-old, who lived in Gloucestershire, died off High Bridgham Road in Bridgham on May 29.

A police report read to the inquest said that days earlier, Mr Jakobiak had sent an email to his employer containing a photograph of a noose.

He had been working as an HGV driver at the time, through a Drayton-based organisation called Skipper Recruit.

The court heard Mr Jakobiak also sent messages to his daughter indicating his intentions, which sparked a police search which led to Norfolk.

In a statement, his brother Arkadwitz Kozaryn told the court that he had taken his sibling in after he spent a spell living in his car, having separated from his partner seven years ago.

But he said despite his struggles, he did not wish to seek help.

He said: "We think he may have been ashamed by his lack of success and did not want to have to rely on me.

"Whenever anybody worried about him he would say that we were the ones that needed help and not him."

Assistant coroner Johanna Thompson concluded that Mr Jakobiak's death was suicide.

She confirmed he was born in Gdansk in Poland and while he had no fixed address, he was most recently known to have been living in Gloucestershire.

The medical cause of his death was hanging.

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