PC Rathband 'found hanged', inquest told

Pc David Rathband – the police officer shot and blinded by Raoul Moat – was found hanged, a coroner in Britain heard today.

The father of two’s body was discovered hanging from a length of material in the stairwell of his three-storey semi-detached home on Heather Lea, in Bebside, Blyth, Northumberland, on Wednesday evening.