Dead police chief Mike Todd’s lover named

The identity of a leading businesswoman who had an affair with the dead police chief Michael Todd has been revealed as Angie Robinson, chief executive of Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry (pictured together). Todd, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, is reported to have been close to Robinson for three years but the relationship is thought to have ended about a year ago. However, the 50-year-old police chief had been upset that his wife, Carolyn, was aware of his friendship with Robinson and was also worried that his private life was being investigated by a Sunday newspaper.

An inquest into the death of Todd, whose body was found on Monday face down in the snow next to a half-empty bottle of gin, was to be formally opened today at Anglesey Council Chamber after a post-mortem on Tuesday failed to find a cause of death. The police officer was thought to have committed suicide by throwing himself off a cliff in Snowdonia. But that theory has since been ruled out as he had no obvious injuries.

An anonymous businesswoman, now thought to be Robinson, told the Sun newspaper that she may have been the last person to see Todd alive after the pair spent the weekend together. "He cooked me dinner on Sunday," she said. "He was acting strangely but I thought no more of it until I saw what had happened on the news."

Fellow Greater Manchester officers said the chief constable had had a reputation as a ladies' man and argued that the troubles rising from his tangled love life were likely to be behind the suicide. "Mr Todd was well known to enjoy the company of ladies," one told the Mirror. "He was flirty and friendly."