Royal hoax call nurse's body flown to India
The body of nurse Jacintha Saldanha was on Friday flown to India, the Indian High Commission here said, as a fresh controversy erupted over the circumstances leading to her death following a newspaper report that a suicide note she left behind contained criticism of the Edward VII hospital staff, though details were not known.
The Jet Airways flight carrying the body was scheduled to reach Mumbai early yesterday. It would then be flown to Mangalore on Sunday for funeral.
The Guardian reported that one of the three handwritten notes left behind by Saldanha criticised the hospital staff in the wake of the hoax call from two Australian radio presenters who posed as the Queen and Prince Charles to obtain medical details of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Williams.
Three days after answering the call, which she took to be genuine, Saldanha committed suicide by hanging herself in her house, close to the hospital.
“One note deals with the hoax call by the DJs from 2Day FM, another details her requests for her funeral, and the third addresses her employers, the hospital, and contains criticism of staff there, The Guardian understands from two separate sources,†the newspaper said.
The police said they were looking at a number of Saldanha's e-mails and her telephone contacts as part of their investigation.
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