A guest suspected to have killed himself after taking a lie detector test on the Jeremy Kyle Show told a researcher “I wish I was dead” two hours before being sent home, an inquest was told yesterday. Steve Dymond, 63, died days after filming the episode in which he was asked questions about his on-off fiancée Jane Callaghan. Caoilfhionn Gallagher, QC, his family’s barrister, said that the construction worker had been “exceptionally vulnerable” and had stopped taking antidepressants in order to take the polygraph test. She added: “After his cruel shaming, he did not get the appropriate support from the aftercare team.”Mr Dymond’s body was found on May 9 in a rented room in Portsmouth where he was staying after he had split from…

Source: The Times October 08, 2019 00:22 UTC