Former motor sport boss Max Mosley died of a gunshot wound within the bed room of his London residence final Could after being instructed his most cancers was terminal, an inquest heard on Tuesday.

His household had stated on the time that the 81-year-old, who was one of the influential figures in F1 historical past, died after a protracted battle with most cancers.

British media stated the inquest at Westminster Coroner’s Court docket revealed Mosley had been knowledgeable he had solely weeks to dwell.

A neighbour and his housekeeper summoned the emergency companies after discovering a be aware on his bed room door saying “don’t enter, name the police.”

The inquest heard Mosley instructed his long-time private assistant Henry Alexander the day earlier than that he supposed to take his personal life.

The BBC quoted coroner Fiona Wilcox saying she was ‘happy’ Mosley had supposed to kill himself.

Mosley, who was the youngest son of distinguished Nineteen Thirties British fascist Oswald Mosley, turned president of the Worldwide Vehicle Federation (FIA), System One’s governing physique, in 1993. He stayed in workplace for 16 years.

In 2008 he gained a high-profile privateness case towards the now-defunct British newspaper Information of the World after it revealed video footage of him concerned in Nazi-style sexual role-play, which Mosley denied and the newspaper did not again up in court docket.

He later gave monetary backing to the court docket prices of claimants in newspaper telephone hacking circumstances.