A partner at a global law firm who was found dead at the foot of cliffs had been suspended from his job for alleged inappropriate sexual behaviour at works parties, an inquest has been told. The inquest on Thursday heard that the senior solicitor was found dead in the Vale of Glamorgan hours after being told a number of people had raised complaints about his behaviour at two works parties. Thomas’s wife, Rebecca, told the inquest she believed the information he was given at the HR meeting was “fundamental” to him being found dead on a beach the following morning, on 18 December last year. She said: “I was not party to the information at the HR meeting he’d attended at work that day. Officers found his car parked in the early hours of the following morning, before a police helicopter located his body at the foot of the cliffs.

Source: The Guardian October 10, 2019 14:01 UTC