Financial consultant believed to have killed himself hours before fraud trial Mr Woods, director of JW Consultant Services Limited, was accused of siphoning off the cash and depositing it into his own account. His wife Sally, 53, a secretary for her husband's company, and their two sons Charles, 18, and Daniel, 15, were too upset to comment from the six-bedroom £560,000 family home in Leeds, on Wednesday. But neighbours revealed the family had been experiencing "money worries" shortly before Mr Wood died. One said: "I know the family were struggling. I don't think John had worked for a while, I heard he'd business had wrapped up last year and he was trying to consulting work but they clearly had money worries. We'll have to wait for the inquest but it would appear that poor John took his own life rather than put his family through the torment of a trial. It's desperately sad, his two sons saw him as a bit of a hero. Writing on Facebook hours of his dad's death, Mr Wood's youngest son Daniel said: R. I. P dad, I will never forget you and will miss you forever. A spokeswoman for Worcester Crown Court confirmed Mr Wood's trial was due to start on Monday morning - just three hours after he was killed. Mr Woods was accused of carrying out his first fraud at Herefordshire Council between September 2010 and October 2012. His second fraud in East Anglia was alleged to have taken place over three days between February 6-9, 2012.