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HSBC banker found hanged in hotel room
Anna Davis22.12.08
A top HSBC banker has been found hanged in a £500-a-night hotel suite in Knightsbridge with a note by his side.
Hotel workers found Christen Schnor, 49, in his Jumeriah Carlton Tower Hotel suite last Wednesday. He is believed to have been naked and hanging by a belt in the wordrobe.
Police were not treating the death of Danish-born Mr Schnor as suspicious.
It is believed Mr Schnor's family had left for Denmark, where they had planned to spend Christmas, days earlier. He had rented a £390-a-day apartment for his wife Marianne and their two children in Lower Sloane Street.
Mr Schnor had become embroiled in a row with the landlords of the apartment in January. He claimed he did not get possession of the flat for a month after signing the two-year lease.
Mr Schnor worked at HSBC's Canary Wharf offices and earned a six-figure salary as the bank's head of insurance, with responsibility for the UK, Turkey, the Middle East and Malta.
A colleague said: "He did not seem under any pressure and was a quiet man." He joined the bank in June 2007. An HSBC spokesman said: "HSBC would like to express our deepest sadness over the loss of a respected colleague."
