A man sadly drowned in a reservoir after going for a walk with a friend, an inquest has heard. Christopher Wyndham, 69, had been a resident at Church Terrace Nursing Home in Stoke-on-Trent. His friend picked him up to take him out for the day on February 20, 2023, and the pair went to Tittesworth Reservoir.
They arrived at the beauty spot at 11.05am and his friend received a phone call. He told Christopher that he would catch him up and stepped away to speak on the phone and then go to the toilet.
But when he returned, he could not find Christopher and reported him missing to a ranger. READ MORE UK set to scorch in 32C heatwave which 'will roast England for 72 hours' The police were informed and a force helicopter spotted a body in the water which was then recovered by officers. Despite the best efforts of the emergency services, Christopher was pronounced dead at the scene at 4.
33pm. There was no third-party involvement and no suicide notes and it remains a mystery exactly how or why Christopher entered the water, StokeonTrentLive reports. PC Hannah Kenney told an inquest into Christopher's death that he had been reported missing on previous occasions.
The retired journalist had once ended up in intensive care after being rescued from the sea off Blackpool four months earlier. He had also previously been sectioned, tried to jump off a building in 2014, had paranoid schizophrenia, and had been detained at Harplands Hospital in 2021. He had absconded from Ladydale Nursing Home.