UK diplomat under ‘extreme stress’ took his own life, rules coroner

Richard Morris was a distinguished civil servant. Photograph: Family Handout/PA

A distinguished British diplomat killed himself after suffering “extreme stress” while he worked long hours with little time off on the Covid crisis, a coroner has concluded.

Richard Morris, the former ambassador to Nepal, feared that he would lose his upcoming post as high commissioner of Fiji if he could not prove his “resilience”, senior coroner Chris Wilkinson said.