A "fearless" former BBC journalist hanged herself in an airport toilet after missing her flight and telling staff she had no money, an inquest heard.

Jacqueline Sutton, 50, a veteran war reporter, was found hanged in a cubicle at Ataturk airport in the Turkish capital of Istanbul after she missed her connecting flight from Heathrow to Iraq last October.

Miss Sutton, from Hertfordshire, had landed in Istanbul from Heathrow with the intention of changing flights and travelling on to Erbil in northern Iraq, North London Coroner's Court was told. She had been working as the Iraq director of London-based charity the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).