A FATHER made a horrific discovery when he burst in to his daughter's town centre home.

An inquest at Leigh heard how Ian Gerald Walsh had travelled from his Boothstown home to visit his 28-year-old daughter but when he arrived at her house in Glebe Street, Leigh he got no reply.

He tried to open the front door but found it bolted and when he went round the back he saw a table turned upside down on the kitchen floor.

He returned to the front of the house, burst open the door and found his daughter Jayne Marie Walsh hanging from the staircase.

Mr Walsh said his daughter had had difficulties in the past, had seen a psychiatrist in 1995 and had become reclusive. He regularly visited her home every fortnight.

PC Robert William Houghton said he attended the scene on September 26 last year and found Jayne hanging with a sheet looped round the bannister and around her neck.

Pathologist Dr Iqbal Singh Dhesi she could have been dead for up to a week and said the cause of death was due to asphyxiation due to strangulation by a ligature.

Delivering a verdict that Jayne "took her own life while suffering from depression", coroner Mr Aidan Cotter said: "It is quite apparent from her diary and notes that she was depressed."