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A private detective accused of cheating Madeleine McCann’s family of £ 300,000 died after falling into her home, a coroner ruled.
The house of Kevin Halligen, 56, was said to be “bloody” when he was found there on January 8, 2018, reports Mirror.co.uk.
At first, the police treated his death as “unexplainable,” but coroner Richard Travers heard that he died of a brain hemorrhage and that detectives found no “suspicious circumstances.”
Despite being a convicted scammer, the investigation registered Mr. Halligen as an “intelligence and security officer”.
He led Oakley International, which received £ 300,000 of publicly donated cash after Madeleine disappeared from Praia da Luz in Portugal at age three in 2007.
Halligen later denied claims that the cash was diverted to pay for first-class travel, the best hotels, and a chauffeur.
In 2012, Halligen was extradited from Britain to the United States, where he admitted to cheating millions of pounds from a company whose executives had been kidnapped in Africa. He was imprisoned.
Paramedics who called Mr. Halligen’s home in Normandy, Surrey performed CPR on him, but he was unable to save him.
An autopsy found that he died of an acute subdural hemorrhage.
A pathologist testified in Woking forensic court last week that “there was no sign of an assault.”
His death was reported to the coroner under the name of Richard Powell.
In recording an accidental death verdict, coroner Richard Travers said: “Mr. Powell suffered a fall in the direction of his home … and they called an ambulance.
Despite attempts to save his life, Mr. Powell died at 05:26 that same day.
“The police assisted and found no suspicious circumstances and the post mortem examination revealed no injuries consistent with an assault or third party involvement.”
Adrian Gatton, a television director and investigative journalist who had worked with Halligen, previously said that he had sunk into alcohol addiction.
He added at the time: “Many people wished him the disease, but his death is almost certainly related to alcoholism.”
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