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'Confused' man drowned in canal after falling in the day before his birthday

A man was found in a canal after going missing on the day before his birthday, an inquest has heard.

Peter Curphey was last seen more than three weeks before his body was pulled from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan. A member of the public found the 44-year-old in a stretch of water near to Horton Street on April 11 of last year.

An inquest at Bolton Coroner’s Court today (Tuesday) heard that Mr Curphey 'drowned whilst under the influence of a mixture of drugs’. Mr Curphey, who had a history of mental health problems and substance abuse, had been discharged from a mental health unit just months earlier.

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Deborah Mercer, Ms Curphey’s mother, told the inquest that her son had excelled at school and was a keen rugby player and swimmer. She described him as ‘charismatic’ and ‘popular’ but said he fell in with the 'wrong crowd' during his teenage years and began to experiment with drugs.

The inquest heard that Mr Curphey, from the Marsh Green area, was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and had previously spent time in a mental health hospital.

Ms Mercer said she visited her son on a daily basis and had 'shouldered the burden' for much of his care for about ten years. She said she began to notice a deterioration in his mental health around February 2021.

Mr Curphey's behaviour started to turn ‘violent and unpredictable’ and she said she believed he was on a ‘downward spiral’.

By that summer, she described Mr Curphey as ‘out of control’ and said he ‘needed sectioning’. Ms Mercer raised concerns about her son's behaviour with Clare House, a mental health service based in Wigan, but said she was told he was ‘fine’.

In December of

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