'Loving family man' took own life in mental health struggle

THE family of a man who took his own life by jumping in front of a train have described him as a loving family man.

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Stephen Rogers was aged 43 when he died at Newton Abbot railway station.

An inquest at County Hall in Exeter has heard Mr Rogers had been suffering with his mental health for many years and was discharged from hospital on the day he died in 2023.

He told mental health professionals that he would go home to Bovey Tracey after discharge and engage with home support. But instead he got out of the taxi at the train station.

The inquest was told there was nothing the train driver could do to avoid a collision and Mr Rogers died from multiple injuries.

Coroner Deborah Archer recorded death by suicide.