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Missing TV presenter Mark Speight was found hanging on a building adjacent to Paddington railway station, British Transport Police have said. | |
Station staff found a body, believed to be that of the 42-year-old, hanging on the roof of MacMillan House on Sunday. The body was out of public view. | |
The body is to be formally identified later by Mr Speight's family. | |
Mr Speight was last seen on 7 April and was said to have been devastated after his fiancee Natasha Collins' death. | |
A post-mortem examination will be held later on Monday and an inquest into Mr Speight's death will be opened on Wednesday, police said. | A post-mortem examination will be held later on Monday and an inquest into Mr Speight's death will be opened on Wednesday, police said. |
'Fragile state' | |
Mr Speight was last seen on CCTV boarding a southbound Bakerloo line Underground train from Queens Park station. | |
Later that day he was reported missing when he failed to meet Ms Collins's mother for coffee in Covent Garden. | |
Mr Speight's 31-year-old fiancee died on 3 January after taking cocaine, sleeping tablets and alcohol. | |
She was found with 60% burns from hot water in the bath at the couple's flat in St John's Wood, north-west London. | |
Following her death Mr Speight, who was said to be in a "fragile state of mind", had moved in with Ms Collins's mother. |