DEVASTATED relatives and friends are struggling to come to terms with the sudden death of a much-loved father-of-four.

Will Poulter, 30, had four boys and a baby girl on the way with Tracy, his wife of seven years, when he died.

His 28-year-old wife, who had been his teenage sweetheart, said her husband had long suffered from depression but was known for “always smiling”.

She said he had recently changed his medication and was found dead at home.

He leaves behind his sons Dylan, aged ten, Jamie, eight, Zac, five and Bradley, four, who are all pupils at St Peter’s School, Sible Hedingham.

Mrs Poulter said Bradley “knows the angels have got daddy. He keeps telling everybody but doesn’t know what it means”.

Mrs Poulter, who is due to have the couple’s baby girl, Lulu, on October 28, said: “I’m just having to get on with it for the kids at the moment.

“It’s been manic with the preparations for the funeral. I think it’s going to be hard next week, when the funeral is.”

Her friend Tasha Hockley, also of Sible Hedingham, said: “He was so easy to get on with, so down to earth.”

Will, who grew up in Braintree and went to the Edith Borthwick School, first met his wife at Chapel Hill Primary School, Braintree, and they started dating after her 16th birthday. The couple married at Braintree Register Office and moved to Spurgeon Close, Sible Hedingham.

He loved DJing at friends’ parties and was known for using cable ties to fix things around the house. Mrs Poulter remembered with fondness how he once put up a conservatory mostly held together with cable ties.

The security guard, who started working in Newmarket a year ago, previously worked at Transporter Engineering, at Gosfield airfield.

Mr Poulter’s parents’ Rob and Ann liv,e in Braintree, and he has one brother, Tom, 28.

His funeral will take place at Three Counties Crematorium on Monday.

An inquest has yet to be held into his death on August 26.