Depressed man who wanted to commit ‘suicide by cop’ yelled ‘go for it’ at armed police — moments before a marksman shot him

A DEPRESSED man who wanted to commit “suicide by cop” yelled “go for it” at armed police — moments before a marksman shot him.

James Wilson, 24, wanted to go down in a “blaze of glory” after he downed 48 cans of beer with a pal following a split with his girlfriend, a Newcastle inquest heard.

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He armed himself with an air pistol and when cops arrived Wilson, from South Shields, yelled: “Go for it, go, go, go.”

Officers used rubber bullets before a single shot from a rifle hit him in the chest and he died later in hospital.

His final words on being hit by the round were to shout "Ah, cushty!" - meaning "great."

That night he had gone to his former girlfriend's house. Kayleigh Reay said: "There was a bang and I heard James laughing and then there was another bang."

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Kayleigh, 28, said he was "loving and funny" but was also depressed and "didn't want to be here any more".

His dad Carl Wilson said: "I think, like young lads do, he wanted to go out in blaze of glory, that is why he did it the way he did."

The hearing continues.