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• Sky Sports executive slashed wrists after taking controversial stop-smoking drug  

A television executive killed himself just weeks after starting to take a controversial smoking cessation drug linked to depression.

Omer Jama, 39, a Sky Sports editor who had no history of mental illness, was found dead at his home just two months after he began a course of drugs to help him quit his 20-a-day habit.

Mr Jama, a video editor with Sky Sports, had slashed both his wrists and stabbed himself in the thigh and stomach. . . .

Coroner Jennifer Leeming said she would be writing to the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use which has been monitoring the drug since it was first authorised in September 2006.

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