Timeline: Mark Speight's final months

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Popular children's TV presenter Mark Speight was found hanged at Paddington station yesterday.

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The 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.