A 23-YEAR-OLD man was found hanging by his flatmate after not leaving his room for two days.

Kyle Hughes took his own life at his home in Adelaide Crescent, Hove, after suffering a bout of depression and low moods at the end of June.

The IT programmer had a history of suffering from depression and anxiety but was not receiving medication for it, his inquest at Brighton Coroner’s Court on Tuesday.

He was believed to be of sound mind in the weeks before his death, though, but his flatmate Cian Curtin told police he had seen Mr Hughes “wired” a few days before discovering his body.

Mr Curtin said he believed his flatmate had been taking drugs but did not know what.

Mr Hughes had told Mr Curtin he was feeling “tired, anxious and a bit depressed”, and he then stayed in his room over the weekend of June 30.

Mr Curtin heard Mr Hughes’s alarm going off on the morning of Monday, July 2, and entered his bedroom as the noise continued.

He did not see Mr Hughes until he went to leave the room – when he saw him hanging from the door.

Mr Curtin contacted emergency services with police and ambulance crews attending.

But Mr Hughes, who worked at software company Netbuilder in Queen’s Road, Brighton, was pronounced dead at the scene.

He had left a note that “apologised” for him taking his own life, the inquest heard.

Mr Curtin had heard a noise from Mr Hughes’s room in the early hours of the Sunday – and that is believed to be the moment he killed himself.

Coroner Veronica Hamilton-Deeley said Mr Hughes’s cause of death was hanging.

She concluded Mr Hughes’s death was suicide.

Despite Mr Hughes telling his flatmate he was feeling down before his death, Mrs Hamilton-Deeley said because he had not been diagnosed with mental health issues she could not record depression as a contributing factor. The coroner said she was satisfied that Mr Hughes had died in the early hours of the Sunday.

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