Man, 33, found deceased at Blackpool home by his own father could have been dead for up to two days

A 33-year-old man found unresponsive at Blackpool home by his father died of an underlying heart condition, an inquest heard.

Jordan Leach, of Marsden Road, South Shore, had last been heard from by his parents two days before he was found on April 18 this year.

After joining his mother on a shopping trip earlier in the week, he contacted her two days later to ask if could borrow some money but when she called round to his home, he said he was feeling too unwell to come to the door and she posted a £20 note through the letterbox.

Having not heard again from Jordan two days after that, his father went round to his home, found the door slightly ajar - which he said was not unusual - and discovered his son unresponsive on a sofa.

Police found no evidence of the property having been disturbed or third party involvement and the £20 note dropped in by his mother two days earlier was still on the floor underneath the letterbox.

A post-mortem examination found no signs of external physical harm, while a toxicology test found no evidence of drugs in his system and only a therapeutic level of dihydrocodeine, a prescribed painkiller.

Jordan had been prescribed anti-biotics following a visit some weeks earlier to the emergency department at Blackpool Victoria Hospital with a chest complaint and had said to his mother just over a week before his death that he felt tired.

Consultant pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd, who carried out the post mortem, initially felt his death was unattributable but after obtaining further details of an underlying medical condition for which Jordan had received treatment in London, he put his death down to that.

Jordan, who was adopted, had hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart disease where the walls of the heart muscle thicken and Blackpool and Fylde chief coroner Alan Wilson recorded a conclusion of natural causes.

Mr Wilson said at the inquest held at Blackpool Town Hall: “This was a much-loved man who received incredible support from his family.”

The coroner added that if Jordan had had children or siblings, which was not the case, he would advise screening for the underlying heart condition.