A man was found in a canal after going missing on the day before his birthday, an inquest has heard.
Peter Curphey was last seen more than three weeks before his body was pulled from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan. A member of the public found the 44-year-old in a stretch of water near to Horton Street on April 11 of last year.
An inquest at Bolton Coroner’s Court today (Tuesday) heard that Mr Curphey 'drowned whilst under the influence of a mixture of drugs’. Mr Curphey, who had a history of mental health problems and substance abuse, had been discharged from a mental health unit just months earlier.
