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Inquest into Gary Speed’s death adjourned until January

Coroner asks for the privacy of Wales manager’s family to be respected.

AN INQUEST INTO the death of Wales football team manager Gary Speed has been told that his wife, Louise, found him hanged at their home on Sunday morning.

The proceedings in Warrington have been adjourned until January 30 with reports pending from the pathologist.

The coroner asked for the family’s privacy to be respected.

The former Leeds United, Newcastle and Everton midfielder was discovered in his Cheshire home last weekend. The news stunned the football world.

Tonight, travelling Leeds fans at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground will mark Speed’s passing with a unique tribute.

United supporters say they will chant their league-winning No 11′s name for 11 minutes, starting in the 11th minute.

The Premier League have also announced that there will be a minute’s applause at each top-flight English game this weekend.

Also today, Football Association of Wales chiefs indicated that they will not begin the search to find a replacement for the national side until the new year.

Officials plan to meet on Thursday but the process will not begin now until they meet again after Christmas, at the earliest.

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    Mute AnneMarie Silbiger
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    Nov 29th 2011, 5:31 PM

    Must have been truly awful for the wife to find him, what an image. Hope the children were not witness to that. May he rest in peace, he must have been tortured to do something like that.

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    Nov 29th 2011, 7:21 PM

    I have read different opinions on Gary speed’s suicide in the last few days, people calling suicide a selfish act and so on. We need to understand that a person that committed suicide really saw no other way out of pain, otherwise they would not have went through with the act. Judging people that commit suicide is not helping at all, it is adding to the pain and guilt that people are carry around already. People should be encouraged to break this taboo, bring all the fears and pain out into the light and we can examine and work through this problem. Adding pain to the pain that is already present is not very intelligent.

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    Nov 29th 2011, 9:27 PM

    Thank you, Julie. That’s exactly the point I was trying to make under another article just put a lot more eloquently

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    Nov 29th 2011, 7:04 PM

    Just goes to show that you really don’t know what’s going on inside a persons head no matter how happy & normal they appear to be…very sad.

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    Mute Bernadette Dunne
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    Nov 30th 2011, 4:26 AM

    And May Gary Rest in peace
    Prayers for his Wife and children and Family that they may find some comfort and support with helping each other through such an extremely difficult sad time……

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