AN inquest heard how a woman found her teenage son hanging at her home after a split with his girlfriend.
The coroner said there was no alternative but to say that Richard Walker took his own life.
The 18-year-old died while staying at his mother's home in Charles Crescent, Hoghton, in August.
The Preston hearing was told that he had been involved with drugs in the past and that weekend had apparently taken ecstasy.
In October of last year he had been upset by a friend's death in a road accident.
Then around two weeks before his death Richard split up with his girlfriend.
He was found dead by his mother Tracey, when she returned home one evening just before 10pm.
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