A young shop assistant hanged herself after finding child sex abuse images on her boyfriend's phone, an inquest has heard.

Lydia Roberts, 21, was said to have felt “violated and hurt” after discovering the indecent content on a second device belonging to her partner Adam Wells, 27, when he left for work on June 10, 2017.

The couple subsequently began arguing about the pictures over text and Wells, a beauty product company director, decided to go out with his friends and colleagues later that evening.

When he returned to their shared home in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, at 3:30am the next morning, he saw Ms Roberts hanging from a cupboard.

He called for an ambulance but she was pronounced dead at the scene by the responding emergency services officers.

Wells appeared at Manchester magistrates court in July 2018 charged with possessing 31 indecent photographs of children.

He was sentenced to a 12 month Community order and instructed to complete 150 hours unpaid work alongside paying a £85 victim surcharge.