Engineer, 33, ran up debts in wife's name

Andrew Barker, 33, was found at Angela Roberts's home in Burstwick, East Yorkshire, last October. Two suicide notes were found, one taped to his arm.

Their contents were not disclosed at an inquest in Hull but the hearing was told that Ms Roberts had a seven-year relationship with Mr Barker before marrying him in 2008. She ended the relationship just nine months later after discovering her bank accounts had been drained.

After marrying in Mexico, the pair planned to emigrate to Australia where Ms Roberts, 45, secured a job as an intensive care nurse, and they decided to rent their house out in the meantime.

But in the first sign of the problems to come, she heard via the tenant that they were being threatened with repossession. At first Mr Barker claimed it was a clerical error, but a second letter arrived and she discovered the mortgage had not been paid for months.

She told the inquest: "I asked him what was going on, if there was anything else. He just said he couldn't afford the mortgage. He was just such a compulsive liar."

Just weeks later, she discovered she was 1,500 overdrawn on one bank account, rather than being 6,500 in credit, and the following day found another account had been wiped out.

She rang the firm in Beverley where she thought he was working, only to be told he'd never worked there.

After the couple split up he moved back to his parents in Hessle, near Hull, and in June he took the first of two overdoses. He also met another woman.

Coroner Geoffrey Saul concluded that Mr Barker had taken his own life.