A qualified electrician deliberately rigged up wiring to electrocute himself in a bath, an inquest heard.

David Revitt, 41, was found dead at his Bradford home by his former partner, Caron Brown, in July.

Electrical engineer Steve Thun, who examined the scene, told the hearing that he found two cables coming out of the bathroom wall, where a disconnected shower unit had been housed.

One of the cables, which had had the earth wire cut off, was fixed to a connector block from where two more wires wrapped around metal weights ran into the bath.

Asked by Coroner Roger Whittaker whether he thought the arrangement was an attempt at electrocution, Mr Thun replied: "There is no way you would introduce electricity into a bath for any other reason."

He said there were scorch marks on the bath and on the ends of the wires.

In a statement read to the inquest, Miss Brown said she and Mr Revitt had been a couple for 25 years and had two sons, but they had split up shortly before Christmas.

He had been diagnosed as suffering from Huntington's disease, a hereditary condition which leads to dementia, and had seen his mother suffer from it.

In June, he took some tablets in a bid to commit suicide and had written on the landing wall that he could not continue the struggle against the disease.

On July 10, three days before he was found dead at his home in Broadfield Close, Tong Street, Mr Revitt saw Miss Brown again and asked if they could get back together, but she told him it would not work as she "only cared for him like a brother."

He told her he was going to electrocute himself and even mentioned gassing himself, she said.

Recording a suicide verdict, Mr Whittaker said he could only conclude that Mr Revitt, with his electrical expertise, had taken the live and neutral wires and deliberately attached them to the weights and placed them in the bath of water he was lying in.

Once one of the electrodes was introduced to the water it would electrocute him immediately, the Coroner added.