THE daughter of a man who died after taking a lethal cocktail of drugs and alcohol said his actions were a cry for help after losing his son.

The inquest was told how Glen Taylor Young, 51, of Gill Street, Burnley, made repeated attempts to take his life after his 27-year-old son died several years ago.

He was finding it hard to come to terms with his divorce before he was found dead at his home on April 7.

His daughter Emma Young, of Pritchard Street, Burnley, said: "My brother committed suicide a few years ago, which came as a complete shock. My dad started taking the tablets because he was so low. I don't believe he did it intentionally to die, maybe to put himself into hospital."

She added: "My father had split from my mother some time ago and they were divorced. He was unhappy with the breakdown of their marriage so he drank a lot and took overdoses. "He took whatever he could, usually sleeping tablets. He also made sure there was somebody around when he did it - somebody to bail him out."

Richard Taylor, Acting East Lancashire Coroner, said: "When somebody takes an overdose, it's a deliberate act. I have to make sure the consequences of his act would result in his own death.

"I don't think he intended to take his own life, it was some sort of cry for help."

Miss Young added: "He was in an on-off relationship which was more off than on. The day before it happened he came up to my house to borrow some money to go out and see his girlfriend.

"I think he took the tablets because he wanted sympathy, a cry for help or to help get his relationship back. He probably thought he could because he had been found before."

Ann Hargreaves, of Norris Strett, Burnley, said: "I had known him for around ten months but didn't know about the previous overdoses."

Pathologist Waleed Salman said Mr Young had the equivalent of ten pints of beer in his system.