Police rule out murder after British couple are found hanged in Cambodia

Police have dominated out homicide after a British couple have been discovered hanged in Cambodia with their palms and toes sure collectively. 

The couple have been named as Robert Wells, 36, from Sunderland, and his spouse Imogen Goldie, 28, from Camberwell, south London. It's believed they'd not too long ago moved to the seaside city of Sihanoukville, in south Cambodia.

On the scene, authorities discovered an obvious suicide notice blaming the NHS for 'consistently letting us down'. 

Following affirmation that the notice was written by Mr Wells and an examination of the room and the our bodies, police in Cambodia mentioned they'd little doubt that the couple killed themselves in an obvious pact.

The couple have been named as Robert Wells, 36, from Sunderland, and his spouse Imogen Goldie, 28, from Camberwell, south London

Whereas Mr Wells was naked chested, his spouse was sporting a black T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan 'Resist!'

'We're satisfied this isn't homicide, regardless of many individuals asking questions how these deaths have been potential,' mentioned Sihanoukville's deputy police chief Colonel Bour Sothy, who added that investigations are persevering with. 

This morning, it emerged that the pair are believed to have recorded pictures of themselves within the days main as much as their deaths and written their ideas about dying in notebooks.

One in every of them begged for the notebooks and two reminiscence playing cards they left of their room to be posted to Ms Goldie's household in London.  

Police haven't revealed what was written within the notebooks or what the reminiscence playing cards confirmed. 

It has not been defined why they have been each blindfolded and gagged and why their palms have been tied.

Some expatriates writing on the Khmer440 web site have questioned how - and why - they tied themselves up earlier than dying.

A British couple have been discovered hanged of their rented room in Cambodia with an obvious suicide notice subsequent to them 

It's believed the couple had not too long ago moved to the seaside city of Sihanoukville, in south Cambodia

It's understood members of the family of Mr Wells have confirmed his handwriting within the obvious suicide notice through which he blamed Britain's Nationwide Well being for lack of assist for individuals struggling psychological sickness.

The our bodies of the couple have been despatched to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital to be claimed by their households.

It isn't identified whether or not the couple's households need the our bodies introduced again to the UK or whether or not they are going to comply with a suggestion within the notice that Mr Wells and Ms Goldie needs to be cremated to avoid wasting the price of repatriating their stays.  

Cambodia newspapers reported their landlord, named as Ian Goodwin, as saying they have been resulting from depart their rented room on December 29 however didn't have the cash to pay for his or her lodging. 

Within the obvious suicide notice, recovered by police, it learn: 'Alternatively, you can save on delivery and have the cremation carried out right here in Sihanoukville. 

'It is a lovely place and we by no means needed to depart, however we perceive and this would be the selection of our household.

The couple, who lived within the seaside city of Sihanoukville, in south Cambodia, have been reported as initially being from Sunderland and Camberwell, in south London

The couple have been discovered hanged in Sihanoukville, a seaside city within the south of Cambodia

'We're sorry, however hopefully we are going to discover peace from despair, bi-polar, Aspergers and the NHS which has consistently allow us to down.

'We love you all and hope that recollections will take the place of tears, however we're going to be in a greater place - both a peaceable oblivion with out unhealthy goals, however who is aware of, we could discover one another once more.'  

Senior police officer Main Normal Narin of Sihanoukville mentioned the case was nonetheless underneath investigation.   

The British Embassy has been alerted to the grotesque discovery.

For confidential assist name the Samaritans within the UK on 116 123, go to an area Samaritans department or go to their web site.

 

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