The man found dead on a barge near Pewsey yesterday has been named as Alan King.

Police are treating the death at Honeystreet as suicide.

Mr King's body was discovered on his boat Harry on Tuesday and police were called.

The Wiltshire Coroner David Masters was notified of the death.

Police said they believed Mr King, who was in his mid-30s, had taken his own life and they are not looking for anyone else in connection with his death.

A full inquest will be held in due course into the circumstances of his death.

Last May Mr King was living with his wife Lorna and her three sons, Danny, 15, Hoe, eight, and Adam, six, in a pair of run down touring caravans on a camp site at the Barge Inn at Honeystreet.

The family was homeless after Mrs King and her three sons moved to Wiltshire from Flint in North Wales.

Mr and Mrs King were married in January 2006 and were desperate to find a proper home to live in.

They told their story to the Gazette and shortly after they were offered council accommodation.

Mr King was working as a storeman in Devizes at the time.

He told the Gazette he was an insulin-dependant diabetic and had to lead as stress-free a life as possible.

Other boaters who knew Mr King said yesterday they were shocked to hear of his death.

June Potts, who runs the Barge Inn with her husband Adrian, said: "He was in here at lunchtime on Tuesday, sat having a drink with some of his friends.

"He always drank pints of diet Coke and occasionally he had a shandy. He seemed his usual happy self as he sat with his chums."

Boating friends said they believed he had been living alone recently. One said: "He was a quiet sort of chap and as far as I knew he was living alone."

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