Richard Morris worked 15-hour days and suffered night sweats when he went missing in May 2020, wife tells coroner

An experienced British diplomat whose body was found almost four months after vanishing from his Hampshire home had been under “extreme stress” working on the sensitive Harry Dunn case and the Covid crisis, an inquest heard.

Richard Morris, the former ambassador to Nepal, worked 15-hour shifts six or seven days a week for the Foreign Office and began to suffer from night sweats, worrying that he was going to make a mistake that could land him in prison, the hearing was told.

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