A MAN was found dead in Llandudno after his body was discovered in woodland.

Christopher Wheeldon, of Hetherington Avenue, Warrington, died aged 41 on Saturday, July 8.

At the opening of the inquest into his death, held in Ruthin yesterday (July 17), it was heard that his body was found in a woodland area near Trinity Crescent at about 11.25am on July 8.

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Mr Wheeldon, a railway worker, was later found at the same location by police.

After carrying out a post-mortem examination, Dr Mark Atkinson provided a provisional cause of death of hanging.

John Gittins, senior coroner for North Wales East and Central, adjourned the inquest to a date to be fixed.

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