Rope death ‘experiment’ gone wrong

A MAN who was found suspended in his bathroom and who died of ligature strangulation was experimenting and did not intend to take his own life, an inquest has heard.

Robert McGarry, aged 48, of Rathfarnam Mill, Church Lane, Rathfarnam, Dublin, was found in the bathroom of the apartment where he lived alone by a garda on April 7 last after his brother expressed concern about him as he had not shown up for work.

There was a rope around Mr McGarry’s neck and left ankle. Investigating sergeant Brendan O’Sullivan told the Dublin County coroner Dr Kieran Geraghty at an inquest into his death that he believed it was an accidental death and that Mr McGarry was controlling the rope by having it around his ankle.