MOTHER found her 24-year-old son hanged in the family home after he ran into debt problems.

Tracey Carter found her son, Anthony Kinsella, upstairs at home in Regal Crescent on January 13 this year, Warrington Coroners Court heard.

She went to get Anthony's cousin, Lloyd Carter.

Lloyd, a HGV technician, said: "I ran upstairs, seen him, I picked him up to take the strain off the rope. That's all I could do until I got my Nan to pass me a knife from down stairs to cut him down."

Lloyd tried to resuscitate him but it was too late. Anthony, a transport administrator, had taken an overdose in an apparent cry for help last summer when he got into debt with loans and credit cards, before his mother paid them off.

A statement from GP Mary Gibbons said Anthony had been suffering from symptoms of anxiety and depression when he first got into debt and wanted a meeting with a counsellor.

His mother, a customer service advisor, told the inquest: "He felt sorry that he couldn't control it even though he wanted to and that was why he wanted to speak to somebody."

She added: "It started again, credit cards, loans, things like that." Anthony was described as an intelligent person who had done very well at every place he had worked.

Coroner for Cheshire Nicholas Rheinberg recorded that he took his own life.