Top lawyer jumped in front of Tube train because he couldn’t afford to send children to private school

Mail Online
November 11, 2011

A solicitor worried about paying his children’s private school fees jumped in front of a train and killed himself, an inquest heard.

Vincent Buffoni, 49, was spending up to £30,000 a year to send Matthew, 14, to elite Charterhouse, and extra to send Francesca, ten, to a prep school.

But the law firm he owned had been hit by the recession, and he had remortgaged the family home to raise £60,000 to continue paying for his children’s education.

Early this year Mr Buffoni, an old boy of Marlborough College, contemplated suicide – writing a farewell note to his family and taking out a life insurance policy – but decided against it, the inquest heard.

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This article was posted: Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:49 am

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