A depressed businesswoman with a tangled love life was found hanged by her belt in an hotel room, an inquest heard.

Arts consultant Lorna "Gill" Glynn, 41, travelled from her home in Plater Drive, north Oxford, to Manchester for a business meeting last May.

The mother-of-three had split up with her TV producer husband and started an affair with one of their friends.

But the relationship soured when she became pregnant and she suffered a miscarriage in April when the man left her, the Manchester hearing was told.

Her husband, Victor Glynn, said he and Mrs Glynn remained close and lived in adjoining houses after the split.

He said she suffered from bouts of depression most of her adult life and was taking anti-depressants.

"However, I felt she was coming to terms with the situation," Mr Glynn said. "A lot of her old spark was returning." Mrs Glynn had met business associates in Manchester to discuss future projects.

After checking into Gardner's Hotel in Piccadilly, she spoke to her teenage daughter on the phone and talked about what time she would be home the following day.

But within two hours of the phone call Mrs Glynn was found dead after her mother alerted hotel management when her daughter had not answered her phone calls.

Duty manager Julie Webster used a master key to get into the room and found her daughter.

Returning a verdict that she committed suicide, Manchester coroner Leonard Gorodkin, said: "It's clear that she suffered from depression over a period of time."

Story date: Thursday 02 March

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