A PRESTWICH company director in financial difficulties died in his fumes-filled car a day after he tried to cut his wrists.

And just before his death, father-of-two Mr Guy Morgan left a note for his wife Judith which read simply: "I'm in the garage".

But an inquest into the 54-year-old man's death was halted to allow the coroner to investigate whether Mr Morgan had written other notes which had not come to light.

The hearing was told Mr Morgan, of Park Road, had financial problems. Previously, he had been admitted to North Manchester General Hospital after an overdose of tablets, but released the same day. And the day before he was found dead in his BMW car in the garage of his home in May, the contract cleaning company director had attempted to cut his wrists and was seen by his GP.

In a statement, Mrs Morgan said when she arrived back to her home she could not find her husband.

She heard the engine of a car running and attempted to gain entry to the locked garage by smashing a side window.

"I realised something was seriously wrong," she added, "and I phoned the emergency services."

Later, police attended the scene and found Mr Morgan slumped in the driver's seat. Officers discovered a hose led from one of the vehicle's twin exhausts into the car.

In her statement, Mrs Morgan said her husband had left a note telling her he was in the garage.

But at Friday's (July 13) inquest at Bury, the dead man's brother, Mr Colin Morgan, told the coroner: "I believe there was one note and possibly more which had been mislaid or cleared out."

Mr Morgan, of Pinfold Lane, Whitefield, said he understood one of the notes referred to his brother's "state of mind or how he felt at the time".

Coroner Mr Barrie Williams told him: "Clearly, Mrs Morgan hasn't disclosed that."

He adjourned the inquest to a later date to determine whether more information relating to Mr Morgan's death was needed.