Poet died trying to hang himse 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
By David Sapsted
A POET suffered fatal head injuries when he fell from a ladder while trying to hang himself.
Roy Blackman, 59, a former civil servant, had decided to kill himself by attaching a noose to a steel bar in the hatchway to his loft at his home in Little Glemham, near Saxmundham, Suffolk. But as he climbed the ladder to do so , he slipped and fell to the landing floor.
Friends who discovered his body found a suicide note, headed "Poem", pinned to a downstairs door. It said: " Don't go upstairs. Phone the police. Please feed the cat."
r Blackman who co-edited a pooetry magazine and had a collection of poems entitled As Lords Expected published in 1996, was found with blood coming from his mouth and nose.
At an inquest in Lowestoft on Friday, the coroner,George Leguen de Lacroix, said: "It is apparent that Mr Blackman has had problems of depression all his life."
Verdict: Accidental death Submitted on 06/08/2003
Submitted by:
Anonymous
Reference:
Daily Telegraph 21/01/03 UK
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