A 43-year-old police marksman has
reportedly shot himself in the chest
after a fight with his girlfriend who
cheated on him.
Colin Smelt, from North London, blasted
himself in the chest with his police issue
Glock pistol after finding out his girlfriend
slept with his colleague
Reports revealed that Smelt was an
emotionally fragile man who did not
cope well when romantic relationships
broke down – and had a history of
threatening suicide.
He went to see his girlfriend after
learning she cheated. She then told him
she was no longer interested in the
relationship.
Breaking into tears several times as she
gave evidence, the young woman, Ms
Jordan said the next morning she had
arranged to have dinner with him and
said: ‘I kissed him on the cheek and said
goodbye.”
‘We were texting all day and at 4pm that
was the last I heard from him.’ Asked
what were in the text messages, she
said: ‘He said “I love you very much”.
‘He started to apologise to me as if he
had done something wrong. I said “but
you haven’t don’t anything wrong”.’
At 4pm she sent him a text asking if she
should go over that night, but she never
got a reply. Worried after she didn’t hear
from him, she called some of his
colleagues to ask them to check on him.
However, Ms Jodan told the hearing that
she never thought he would kill himself.
She said: ‘I just didn’t want him taking
his motorbike out and driving 300 miles
an hour – I wasn’t thinking he would
take his life.’
She said Smelt – a keen motorcyclist,
skier and scuba diver – was ‘outgoing’
and had a ‘real zest for life’. (60)
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