Sunday 8 May 2022 04:23 PM Gardener, 35, took his life just three days after his girlfriend was found dead ... trends now
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A 'gifted' gardener from Blackpool took his own life after telling friends he 'couldn't live without' his girlfriend who had been found dead three days earlier.
Craig Daffern was reported missing to police on Friday, January 14, having been last seen in the Paddock Close area of Thornton-Cleveleys at 2.30pm.
Officers issued a picture of his red Mazda car as concerns for his welfare grew, but his body was found in the Catforth area of Preston two days later, on Sunday, January 16.
The 35-year-old, who attended Myerscough College and ran his own landscape gardening business, Daffern's Design & Landscapes, had been left devastated by the death of his girlfriend Jenny Shanley, a mum-of-three found dead on January 11.
Miss Shanley's death, believed to be a suicide, will be subject to an inquest later this year.
Craig Daffern, 35, from Blackpool, took his own life in January just days after he was left devastated by the death of his girlfriend, Jenny Shanley, a mother-of-three
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