Speight death: CCTV evidence probed

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The body of the 42-year-old was found hanging in a building adjacent to Paddington railway station, police said.

Officers are investigating how Speight managed to access the partially-disused office block and apparently take his life.

Investigators are studying CCTV footage recorded at the busy London railway terminal last Monday when Speight was last seen alive.

Friends said he was left reeling by the death of his fiancee Natasha Collins at the flat they shared in St John's Wood, north-west London, in January.

In the weeks after the tragedy, Speight moved in with her mother, Carmen, who reported him missing last Monday after he failed to keep an appointment with her.

Speight was spotted at Queen's Park Tube Station in north west London - four stops from Paddington - later that day.

Several days earlier a coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure after an inquest heard how Miss Collins was found dead in the bath. She had taken cocaine and sleeping tablets and suffered hot water burns covering 60% of her body after the couple spent the night "partying".

Speight was initially arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying class A drugs but no charges were brought.

British Transport Police (BTP) said railway workers found the body on the roof of MacMillan House. A post-mortem examination will take place to identify how long his body lay undiscovered.