AN open verdict has been recorded on a man suffering from mental health problems who died from multiple injuries after falling from the carpark at The Harlequin shopping centre in Watford.

The court heard on the day of his death Mr Angelo Hicks, from Woolmerdine Court, Bushey, had been dropped off at Watford General Hospital's accident and emergency department by his health and support worker, after complaining of seeing hallucinations.

He left when told at the reception there was a four hour wait, walked to the shopping centre and within half an hour he was dead.

A note was found in his flat by police which contained references that he wished to end his life. But the coroner said it could not be established when the letter had been written.

He said there would not have been enough time between leaving the hospital at around 3pm, to go home and write the note, before his death at 3.30pm on Monday, August 19, last year.

At Monday's inquest at St Albans Magistrates Court deputy coroner for West Hertfordshire Mr Graham Danbury said he could not deliver a verdict of suicide unless sure beyond all reasonable doubt that is the intention of the deceased.