ENGLAND cricket star Graham Thorpe told a doctor he “didn’t see the point of being here” but was not classed as an imminent risk, an inquest heard.

The dad, 55, was found dead on August 4 last year after a heartbreaking battle with anxiety and depression for several years.

An inquest has heard Thorpe begged his wife Amanda to help him die when his mental health “spiralled”.

The Surrey lefthander had previously tried to take his own life in 2022 after losing his coaching job with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

Today, Surrey Coroner’s Court was told Thorpe had missed a number of appointments with a mental health team before his death.

He also told care co-ordinator Katie Johnson in June 2024 that he “hadn’t been out for a while” and “didn’t see the point of being here”.

But Thorpe reportedly had no immediate plans to act on suicidal thoughts and agreed to come to more follow-up appointments, consultant psychiatrist Dr Amirthalingam Baheerathan said.

When asked whether the comments required an immediate review, the psychiatrist said he felt Thorpe “wasn’t under imminent risk”.

The last time Dr Baheerathan saw Thorpe was 19 weeks before he died on March 20, 2024, it was said.

He had been treating the cricketer since October 2022 after he was transferred to the community mental health recovery services following his discharge from a private hospital.

It came after Thorpe was dismissed from his role with the ECB following an “incident” surrounding a viral video.

According to reports at the time, the video was filmed after a dismal Ashes series which England lost 4-0.

It showed Tasmanian police breaking up a drinking session involving both England and Australia players.

The leak of the footage caused Thorpe to be dismissed and he ended up in hospital for eight weeks due to a suicide attempt in 2022.

His wife Amanda told the court Thorpe had also found Covid lockdown “very difficult” and “stressful”.

Assistant coroner Jonathan Stevens said: “Things continued to go downhill, he was really struggling, had anxiety and insomnia and it was all really dark.”

Thorpe made repeated threats to kill himself and by June 2024, he lost interest in food and “wanted to hide away, totally isolated, in real crisis and despair”, the court heard.

On August 4 that year, he left home and was never seen alive again.

Amanda believed he had gone out to walk the dog but saw the pet at home still so tried to call her husband.

The court heard she then received a call from Thorpe’s dad telling her: “He’s gone”.

Amanda added: “He never really recovered from (his first suicide) attempt.

“He came back from the tour of Australia in a terrible state – lots of things, the video, the environment, the set-up.

“To be sacked after that I think it was foreseeable that it would be really really hard on him.”

She also told the court how in the weeks leading up to his death, Thorpe told her he “doesn’t want to be here any more”.

Amanda added: “”He asked me to help him end his life.

“He said he wants to go to Switzerland. I was in turmoil.”

Thorpe made his international debut in 1993 and scored a century on his first Ashes appearance, becoming the first England player to do so in 20 years.

He was an England regular and went on to play 100 Tests, scoring 16 centuries and featuring 82 times for the ODI side, as well as enjoying a 17-year career with Surrey.

His final Test appearance came in June 2005 before he was omitted from that summer’s victorious Ashes series and called time on his international career.

The inquest continues.

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