The tragic story of Jacintha Saldanha, who committed suicide in her nursing staff quarters in London on December 7, may have much deeper roots than just the humiliation she suffered at the hands of the two Australian Radio DJs two days earlier, on December 5.
First came a man bearing a simple wooden cross, then a brass band playing dirges. A little way behind them, an ambulance followed carrying the coffin of Jacintha Saldanha as it made one last journey.
The funeral for the nurse found dead after a prank call was made to the Duchess of Cambridge’s hospital is taking place in Shirva in Udupi District today afternoon. Mother-of-two Jacintha Saldanha was found dead in her nurses’ quarters at London’s King Edward VII’s Hospital on December 7.
A fortnight ago, Jacintha Saldanha took her own life, hanging by a scarf in her hostel room. She left behind a grieving husband and two teen children, besides a couple of memos. Police and media refer to them as suicide notes. The global media, including Bellevision,
London Royal hoax nurse Jacintha Saldanha was found hanged in her flat and was said to have left a suicide note for her family, it was reported on Wednesday. Initial reports suggested that Saldanha was alive but unconscious when she was discovered.
The distraught family of an Indian-origin nurse, who got caught up in a prank call made to a hospital treating Prince William’s wife Kate, believe she died of shame after falling for the hoax. 46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha was found dead at nurses’ quarters next to the private
“Jacintha has left us.” On Friday evening, as the real and virtual world buzzed over the tragedy of her death, Benedict Barboza placed a call home to Shirva in Udupi district and, with these brief, quiet words, told mother Carmine about the death of his wife Jacintha Saldanha.