Tributes have been paid to a 'nice, honest and decent' man who died after jumping in the River Severn in Shrewsbury earlier this year.
A coroner was told that there was no evidence that Shrewsbury man Robert Neville Frost had intended to kill himself when he went off a footbridge on February 21.
Mr Frost was seen swimming with the current in the river but was pulled from the river at the Quarry, by Greyfriars Bridge.to save Mr Frost's life but sadly to no avail. Shropshire senior coroner John Ellery was told that Mr Frost's actions on the footbridge were witnessed by grandparents and their children who had travelled in from Oswestry.Garry Morris, coroner's officer, read out the grandparents' statement which recorded that they rushed along the riverbank to try to keep him in sight.
On the Wednesday morning he had been seen by the vicar of the church he attended, and withdrew £20 from Tesco in Pride Hill. He had also been seen in M&S.But Mrs Holroyd said that her brother heard"spirits in his head" and speculated that they might have persuaded him to act the way he did. He attended Radbrook Church at the community centre on a Sunday and sometimes Meole Brace. He would put out the chairs and banners and made teas and coffees.Mr Ellery said:"Nothing tells me that Robert was intending to kill himself. His thoughts were disordered."
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