A policeman who died after being airlifted from the Snowdon area died of natural causes, a coroner ruled.

PC Anthony Mulhall was found by mountain rescuers and flown to hospital in July this year. He died in intensive care a day later. North Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard-Jones said that, despite having consumed sleeping tablets, the officer died of pneumonia.

The 34-year-old constable had been removed from public duties after a video emerged which showed him repeatedly hitting a woman outside a Sheffield nightclub.

The coroner said he initially believed the man’s death might have been a copycat attempt at suicide following the widely publicised death on Snowdon of the chief constable of Greater Manchester Michael Todd.

However, a post-mortem examination of PC Mulhall’s body showed he had lobal pneumonia and it was that, rather than the taking of Nytol tablets or the weather, that had cause the man’s death.

A walker found him in the Nantmor area, near Beddgelert, south of the mountain. His wife, Letitia Mulhall, also a police officer, had reported him missing from their home near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

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