Loving dad struggling with the death of his own father found dead next to his grave

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An 'amazing' dad who had struggled to come to terms with the deaths of his own father and his best friend was found dead in his car close to where they are buried.

The body of John Patrick Duffy, 37, was discovered by a mourner in a Volkswagen Golf parked across the entrance to Middleton Cemetery at around 8:30am on Saturday, March 4 this year.

Paramedics were alerted and raced to the scene on Boarshaw Road but he could not be saved. He was found to have died of a drug overdose with a coroner now ruling he took his own life. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link. Mr Duffy's wife Jodie described him as 'loyal, honest and the best dad and husband that she and her children could have wished for', an inquest into his death was told. "He will be sadly missed," she continued. "He was a loving son, brother, and uncle, but most of all he was the most amazing dad to his daughters who he adored, who loved him and will miss him." She said Mr Duffy's father died when he was 11 years old and that this had a 'big impact on his life.' However, she said he was healthy until five years ago when 'his best friend passed away by taking his own life.' Mrs Duffy told a police coroner's officer it was in the summer of last year that she and his family 'noticed a change' in her husband's behaviour.

She said at Christmas she went to see his GP with him where they raised concerns about his mental health. The hearing was told he was prescribed three different types of tablets for his low mood but he 'declined to take them because of the side effects.' Around the start of 2023 he would 'disappear for periods of time' and leading up to his death cleared out his locker at the workplace where he had been