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Painter, writer and teacher died by accident on Primrose Hill
A LANDSCAPE painter who was found dead in Primrose Hill accidentally killed himself, an coroner has ruled.
Writer, artist, and English teacher Richard Wilson, 45, died in July this year after taking methadone, St Pancras Coroner’s Court was told.
Mr Wilson, who was married to photographer Linda Nolte-Wilson, 47, had long suffered from crippling chronic fatigue syndrome, after 15 years of Hepatitis C induced by liver disease, for which he would take the painkiller codeine.
But Mrs Nolte-Wilson, who lives in Broxwood Way, Primrose Hill, told the court: “He wasn’t well. That July he was very exhausted. He’d been getting headaches for many years. I told him maybe he’s taking too much medicine. I think he took more codeine than he liked people to believe.”
She said her husband, who counted Japanese among his many languages, used to teach English as the couple travelled through the Himalayas, Asia, and the Americas. She added: “We travelled a lot and he painted. He wrote about our travels, things we did, I photographed wildlife and he wrote about it.”
Mrs Nolte-Wilson told how she had woken one morning to find her husband out but had assumed he was looking for work.
But when he hadn’t returned by the next morning, Mrs Nolte-Wilson and her daughter began to worry.
She said: “We thought we should check what he had on him. We looked in the cupboard, his briefcase, phone and wallet were there.”
She spoke to relatives, hospitals and the police but heard nothing until later that day when officers his body had been found on some steps in Primrose Hill.
Mrs Nolte told the court: “We used to sometimes go and sit there in the park. It was a nice place to sit. It would seem he just went out for a cigarette.”
Home office pathologist Freddie Patel gave the cause of death as methadone toxicity but said there was nothing to suggest Mr Wilson was a long-term user.
Assistant deputy coroner Andrew Reid said: “Mr Wilson was not in any way attempting to end his life. I am satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, Richard Wilson died as a result of an accident.”
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