A mother found her son dead in a garden hammock after he inhaled a lethal amount of butane gas, an inquest heard.

Bank worker Luke Conroy, 21, was prone to suicidal thoughts and had run up several small debts.

The Eastbourne inquest heard that on the day before his death he was very quiet and had been feeling unwell.

His mother, Karen Stone, found him in the hammock in Downs Villas, Newhaven, on July 28 at 6.40am.

A suicide note was found in his trouser pocket and a post-mortem examination concluded his death was caused by butane gas.

Mrs Stone said: "He was a lovely young handsome man but not confident. I tried to speak to him on several occasions about his feelings of depression.

"I look back and think I should have seen something but I thought things were going very well."

East Sussex coroner Alan Craze Craze recorded a verdict of suicide.