A FORMER security officer who had financial and relationship difficulties took his own life a day after sending a "last text message" to his one-year-old daughter.
Andrew O'Mara (36) had also been awaiting sentence after earlier admitting the theft of £3,000 from his employers.
The ex-Asda worker was found dead with a plastic bag over his head, fastened with tape. He had earlier taken a drugs overdose. Mr O'Mara's body was discovered at a house in Rochdale Old Road, Bury, in January.
An inquest into the death, held in Bury, was told that Mr O'Mara had previously lived for five years with his partner Julie Perry, in Ash Street, Bury. The couple had a one-year-old daughter. But the relationship failed late last year and the twice-married father-of-four moved out.
Latterly, Mr O'Mara became depressed because of financial problems and he had threatened to kill himself.
The day prior to his suicide he had sent a text message, via Miss Perry, for his one-year-old daughter. Coroner Mr Barrie Williams recorded a verdict of suicide.
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