A former mayor committed suicide after it was revealed he used a secret camera to spy on teenage girls as they showered, an inquest heard yesterday.
Paul Thomas, 55, resigned as mayor of the idyllic Worcestershire village of Upton-on-Severn following his arrest on suspicion of filming the youngsters in February.
The married father-of-three also quit his job as sales director for an industrial containers firm when the scandal broke in a local newspaper.
He had admitted setting up a camera in a bathroom to spy on teenage girls and was due to answer bail at Worcester Police Station in May.
But Thomas was found hanging from a tree on flood plains in Upton, next to the River Severn, on Sunday, April 18.
Yesterday, an inquest how the 55-year-old wrote notes detailing his plans to take his own life.
