Respected therapist found dead at Beachy Head

Seventy-three-year-old Roger Powe lived in Brighton.

His body was found on the shore at Beachy Head on December 19 last year.

An inquest at Eastbourne Town Hall on Thursday (August 5) heard Mr Powe had been an Anglican minister, worked as a school chaplain and in recent years converted to Catholicism.

He had suffered with bowel cancer but was in remission.

The inquest was told Mr Powe was a deeply troubled man but he was widely respected and helped a great number of people.

East Sussex coroner James Healy-Pratt recorded a verdict that Mr Powe took his own life.

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