Antivirus software tycoon John McAfee took his own life in prison, a preliminary post-mortem examination is reported to have shown.
The 75-year-old’s cause of death was “confirmed by various sources”, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.
According to the same sources, McAfee left a suicide note, it added.
A spokesperson for Catalonia’s court system, which administers the post-mortem, told Reuters news agency they had nothing to say about the newspaper’s story.
British-born McAfee died in a Barcelona prison cell where he was awaiting extradition to the United States.
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Prison wardens found his body on Wednesday, McAfee’s lawyer, Javier Villalba, said last week.
Mr Villalba added that McAfee’s widow had asked him to request a second, independent autopsy once the results of the first had been released.
