A man who was found dead, naked from the waist down and slumped on his sofa in his flat in Chesham, had committed suicide by ingesting e-cigarette liquid, an inquest heard.
Jonathan Keen, 46, was found dead in his bottom floor flat in Eskdale Avenue this year.
The court heard how Mr Keen, a broadcast engineer, would regularly mix his own concentrations of nicotine to use in e-cigarettes – battery-powered vaporisers that simulate the feeling of smoking without burning tobacco.
DC Edward Blackburn, of Force CID based at Aylesbury police station, said Mr Keen’s girlfriend Vanessa had grown concerned when she had not heard from him since the day before and visited his flat on Thursday evening.
When he did not answer the door, she saw through a gap in his curtains that he was slumped on the sofa and called his landlady and the ambulance service, who then called the police.
When DC Blackburn arrived at the scene, he said Mr Keen had ‘clear liquid’ around his nose.
He said: “On the coffee table in front of him was a bottle of e-cigarette fluid and various empty cider cans were found in the kitchen.”
