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Sun Apr 28, 2013, 02:15 PM Apr 2013

Story update: UK nurse blamed Australian radio jockeys in suicide note

Hoax call: India-born UK nurse blamed Australian radio jockeys in suicide note

LONDON: The India-born nurse found hanging in London, days after a prank radio call by two Australian RJs to a UK hospital treating a pregnant Kate Middleton, has directly blamed them for her death in a suicide note.

Jacintha Saldanha, 46, who was on the hospital switchboard where Kate was being treated for morning sickness last December and forwarded the hoax call to the Duchess of Cambridge's ward, has asked her bosses in the hand-written note to make the presenters pay her mortgage, according to a report in Sunday Times.

In one of three letters she left behind, the mother of two from Bristol reportedly exonerates the King Edward VII's Hospital in London.

"Please accept my apologies. I am truly sorry. Thank you for all your support. I hold the Radio Australians Mel Greig and Michael Christian responsible for this act. Please make them pay my mortgage. I am sorry. Jacintha," the newspaper quotes one of her notes, addressed to her managers at the hospital.

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Sunday Times said that in another of the suicide notes, the nurse said she did not blame her colleagues for the distress that drove her to kill herself.

A third note is believed to contain instructions for her funeral, which took place in India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/other-news/Hoax-call-India-born-UK-nurse-blamed-Australian-radio-jockeys-in-suicide-note/articleshow/19771395.cms

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