February 2019 Convicted paedophile takes his own life months after jail release A convicted paedophile took his own life three months after being released from prison. David Sinclair-Brunell, 55, was found dead in his flat on June 8, 2018, after taking a lethal dose of drugs. He had been released from prison in March 2018 after serving an 18-month sentence for distributing indecent images of children, an inquest at Hull Coroners Court heard on Thursday. A suicide note, addressed to his mother, was found pinned to the front door of his home in Newland Avenue, which included a quote from Doctor Who saying: “It is the end…But the moment is prepared for.” Humberside Police officers forced entry into the property and found his body. The inquest heard Sinclair-Brunell, who was born Christopher Howard Stone, had written about his intention to take his own life. It heard he suffered with mental health, including a long history of anxiety and depression, throughout his life after being sexual abused as a child. In the 1990’s, Sinclair-Brunell sent various letters and cassette recordings to members of his family stating his intent to “end it all”. He travelled to London and threw himself in front of an underground train but survived the impact. Medical history provided by his general practitioner also revealed drug overdoses in 1979 and 1999. He was diagnosed with mental behavioural problems in 1985 and Asperger’s syndrome in 2017, which he struggled to come to terms with. Sinclair-Brunell was first arrested for distributing child pornography on the internet in the late 1990’s and served a two-year sentence. He returned to prison in 2016 to serve an 18-month sentence for the same offence. Pathologist Dr Lazlo Karsai concluded that the medical cause of death was drug poisoning and area coroner Rosemary Baxter recorded the death as suicide. She said: “David Sinclair-Brunell, otherwise known as Christopher Howard Stone, died on June 8, 2018, at his home address in Newland Avenue. “I find he was somewhat depressed in the weeks leading to his death and find that his many and sad problems overcame him in the end and that he intended to die. “I find that it was a pre-planned act and that he intended to take the paracetamol to take his own life. I therefore conclude that the death of David Sinclair-Brunell to be recorded as suicide.”