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His body was later found on a lonely mountainside in bad weather. He had drunk gin and taken sleeping tablets.
North West Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones said there was not enough evidence for suicide or an accident through misadventure. He recorded a narrative verdict.
The coroner said: “Mr Todd died of exposure when his state of mind was affected by alcohol, a drug and confusion due to his personal situation.”
The last emotional text message from Mr Todd, former Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, had prompted the person who received it, known only as C, to call police.
But the message was the last contact he made, following his spiral into despair after his wife Carolyn’s discovery of his affair with another woman.
Mr Todd’s body was found, close to an empty gin bottle, the next day, March 11, at Bwlch Glas on Mount Snowdon, following a massive police search.
A call from another person, known only as B, got through to his phone and was “unintentionally” or “accidentally” answered - the implication Mr Todd was slumped on his phone.
As Mr Todd apparently lay dying, B could only hear an “urgent heavy breathing sound”, the inquest was told.
Days before he had been confronted by his wife, who had found out about his infidelity, the inquest heard.
Angie Robinson, the married chief executive of Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, was linked to the police chief following his death.
But she was just one among a string of other women involved with Mr Todd - and it emerged today another person, G, had spent the night at his flat days before his death.
As his life unravelled the 50-year-old searched the internet for ways to kill himself, sending increasingly desperate text messages to friends and lovers.
The texts culminated in him admitting he was intending to kill himself and apologising to his wife, telling her he still loved her.
Mrs Todd sat impassive as her husband’s tangled private life was laid bare through emails and text messages revealed during the inquest.
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