Popular children's TV presenter Mark Speight was found hanged at Paddington station
yesterday.
> Obituary: Mark SpeightThe former
SMart presenter
blamed himself for the death of his fiancée
Natasha Collins from an overdose of cocaine and sleeping pills and was reported missing last week.
Below is a timeline of
Mark Speight's last months:
January 3: Speight finds fiancée Collins dead in the bath tub of their shared North London flat. He is
arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying class A drugs, admitting to police that he and Collins had spent the night "partying".
January 4: Speight is released on bail, saying he is "absolutely distraught". The BBC pulls future screenings of his show
SMart.
January 8: An
inquest opens into Collins's death after a post-mortem proved inconclusive.
January 9: Speight is cleared as a murder suspect.
April 2: An inquest records Collins's death as one by
misadventure after high levels of cocaine and sleeping pills are found in her blood.
April 7: Speight is reported
missing by Collins's mother Carmen after he fails to meet her for lunch at Covent Garden.
April 8: Police announce that Speight was last
seen in Kilburn and said he appeared "distracted and deep in thought".
April 13: Speight's body is
found hanged at Paddington station.
