DIABETES sufferer Haydon Mansfield, 20, was found dead in bed at the home he shared with a friend and his mother, a Taunton inquest heard.

Jane Giles, whose son Matthew had been friends with Haydon from an early age, told the hearing on Thursday how she discovered him in his bedroom at her home in Eastwick Road, Taunton, on September 22 this year.

West Somerset Coroner Michael Rose recorded a verdict of death by natural causes, due to his diabetes.