Kate's hoax call: 'Suicide' nurse Jacintha's burial in India

Family members reportedly devastated as burial to take place in Shirva village near Mangalore

Jacintha Saldanha will be buried in India once the investigation surronding her death are complete.

Scotland Yard is investigating the case of two radio presenters who made a prank call that apparently led to an Indian-origin nurse's suicide, as the DJs were said to be in hiding amid global outrage.

The husband of the nurse is said that she would be laid to rest in Shirva, in Karnataka, India.

The husband posted the following mesasage on his Facebook account to express his grief,"I am devastated with the tragic loss of my beloved wife Jacintha in tragic circumstances. She will be laid to rest in Shirva (in Karnataka), India."

46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha was found hanging at nurses' quarters next to the private King Edward VII hospital in Marylebone, central London on Friday, The Sun reported.

Scotland Yard is understood to have asked police in Sydney for assistance, with a view to interviewing the two DJs ahead of an inquest into Jacintha Saldanha's death.

FAMILY IN DISTRESS:

The family members of the tragic nurse in the royal hospital hoax call are devastated and angry for their personal lose.

In a report, Daily Mail believes she died of shame. A devoutly Catholic woman who was a ‘proper and righteous person’, Saldanha would have been ‘devastated’ at unwittingly assisting a colleague in breaching medical confidentiality over the condition of the Duchess of Cambridge.

When Nurse Jacintha Saldanha from King Edward VII hospital received a call from two prankster Australian radio jockey she, in absence of a receptionist, passed on the call to the desired destination.

Mrs Saldanha put the call through to Duchess Kate’s ward, where an unnamed colleague gave details of the duchess’s treatment for severe morning sickness.
 
A recording of the conversation was broadcast on the 2Day FM station with the DJs gleefully boasting about their successful hoax.

Few days later Saldanha was found dead in in the nurse's accommodation under mysterious circumstances.

Grieving husband Benedict Barboza has revealed his fury to Mirror as he struggles to come to terms with the suicide of his beloved wife.

Benedict is seething with the DJs from 2Day FM whose call duped Jacintha, 46. And he has slammed hospital chiefs for the way they handled the aftermath of the prank call about Duchess Kate. He feels very angry about the hospital management.

Solicitors Bircham Dyson Bell, acting for the hospital, said, “No disciplinary action of any kind had been taken or was contemplated in respect of Ms Saldanha.

“On the contrary, the hospital regarded her as having been the victim of a hoax and that she was blameless in the matter. She was being supported by the hospital and was regarded as a highly skilled and valuable member of the hospital’s nursing team.”

Royal officials said Prince William and pregnant Kate, who was at the hospital being treated for severe morning sickness, were “deeply saddened” by the mum-of-two’s death.

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DEATH A MYSTERY:

Immediately after the death of the mother-of-two Saldanha, it was believed that she has taken her own life after she was duped by two Australian radio presenters.

The hospital where she worked did not comment on media reports that she had committed suicide.

Now the police, ahead of a post-mortem examination next week, said they were treating the death, which happened at a property nearby, as 'unexplained'.

Police didn't release a cause of death, but said they didn't find anything suspicious. A coroner will make a determination on the cause next week, police said.

The London hospital that treated Prince William's wife Catherine blasted Saturday the Australian radio station whose hoax call led to a nurse's death, calling the stunt "appalling".

The company that owns the radio station behind a prank call about the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy says it is reviewing its broadcast practices.

Southern Cross Austereo chairman Max Moore-Wilton says in a letter to the chairman of King Edward VII's Hospital that the company will cooperate with any investigation.

Britain has reacted with horror at prank call. On Saturday, hospital chairman Lord Simon Glenarthur wrote to Max Moore-Wilton, chairman of broadcasting group Southern Cross Austereo which owns 2Day FM, to protest "in the strongest possible terms" about the hoax.

"It was extremely foolish of your presenters even to consider trying to lie their way through to one of our patients, let alone actually make the call," he wrote.

"Then to discover that, not only had this happened, but that the call had been pre-recorded and the decision to transmit approved by your station's management, was truly appalling.

"The immediate consequence of these premeditated and ill-considered actions was the humiliation of two dedicated and caring nurses who were simply doing their job tending to their patients.

"The longer-term consequence has been reported around the world and is, frankly, tragic beyond words."

A friend at the address said the family was "very, very shocked and unhappy at the tragedy".

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  • shannon 11 December 2012 21:27 2 8
    Im sorry I find it very hard to believe that divulging a minor condition like morning sickness, a threat to state security or the Duchess. SADLY its the most pathetic excuse for taking your life, Im sorry this story makes no sense at all! She must have been suffering from long term depression or something more sinister at play here!
  • linda 11 December 2012 11:01 0 1
    Million's of years of evolution. Six major extinctions to get human's to where we are now. To tell you the truth, I don't see most human's as the intelligent one's. HAHA you think your sick of it now, this is just the beginning.
  • James Smith 11 December 2012 09:25 9 3
    There's something very suspicious surrounding the circumstances of this "apparent" suicide. It all seems to convenient to redirect the blame to divert attention.
  • Heba 11 December 2012 06:53 5 7
    I refuse to believe this was a suicide. A prank call could not have lead the nurse to end her life and hang herself, it just doesn't make any sense.
  • Bob Piper 11 December 2012 04:16 8 7
    The DJ's may be guilty of attempting to violate England's version of HIPPA laws. But they are in no way responsible for this person's decision to end her life. The hospitals confidentiality Policies and procedures are either inadequate or the nurse didn't follow them. Neither are a reasonable reason to end a human life.
  • Sukkii 10 December 2012 23:04 7 5
    Dont blame the DJ's, blame the hospital or the Palace for not having adequate security. The nurse chose to take her life and I dont think for one moment it was because of what she did.
  • Elaine Morrison 10 December 2012 19:11 2 2
    Thank-you for your article! Finally! Does anyone seriously expect even the gullible public to believe that was a nurse's choice method of "suicide", leaving behind two children, after she had not been disciplined by the hospital? With access to drugs, a drug that killed her would have to have been taken from her cabinet, under surveillance presumably. If that was not so, it would be too easily caught. Hence the better choice of a (car) accident or other to kill her.
  • Hmmm 10 December 2012 17:10 9 3
    Something is fishy here. How can a prank call force one to end her life, What about her 2 beautiful children? Definitely there is much more to this story
  • Nurse 10 December 2012 10:33 14 7
    Imagine the mental onslaught she must have been under to abandon her family... Who told her that her life wasn't worth living? Can a 3 second call really have that much of an effect on one's life all by itself? I don't think so. Its the party that is the quietest that speaks the loudest to me!
  • BSX 10 December 2012 08:42 8 21
    How come the 2 DJ & the radio station wsan't arrested by the police for 2nd degree manslaughter charges? Their prank directly caused the death of the nurse. It's like bully in high school caused teens suicide. They (bullies) were prosecuted in court for their actions.
  • FYTS 9 December 2012 12:31 29 21
    The presenters should be prosecuted for false impersonation.
  • danushke 9 December 2012 11:52 27 7
    Personally I am not in favour of these Prank calls. But this episode of Royal pregnancy itself is way too much. Surely many untold stories behind the suicide.
  • Nabil 9 December 2012 11:39 10 64
    The Lady made a horrible mistake by putting the call through, then made another by ending her life, some people simply don't learn. RIP
  • Zoo 9 December 2012 11:09 21 20
    Agreed this might not be suicide. The presenters didn't expect to go through the line and prank was just for kicks. What suprises me is for a woman to have lived over a decade in UK not realising that a Queen would never directly call herself and that the line was directly connected. Tooo many questions!
  • Zaid 9 December 2012 09:41 31 14
    Pranks happen all the time. I heard the recording, and I don't think the presenters did anything extreme that would cause this tragedy. I think there's much more to the story than just "suicide" !

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