Young British Couple 'Commit Suicide'

Muertaluna · #31 ● 01-05-2017, 04:18 AM

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Police have ruled out murder after a British couple were found hanged in Cambodia with their hands and feet bound together.
Robert Wells, 36, from Sunderland, and his wife Imogen Goldie, 28, from Camberwell, south London had married on Christmas Day the seaside town of Sihanoukville, in south Cambodia.
But days later, they were found dead in a guesthouse with an apparent suicide note which referred to mental health struggles and which accused the NHS of 'constantly letting us down'.
Following confirmation that the note was written by Mr Wells and an examination of the room and the bodies, police in Cambodia said they had no doubt that the couple killed themselves in an apparent pact.
Today, Mr Wells' heartbroken mother Collette, from Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland, said the couple were on holiday together in the South East Asian country when they tied the knot.

She recalled the last time she spoke to her son on December 26 and he told her about the wedding and how much he loved Imogen.
She said: 'They were on holiday and he rang me on Boxing Day to tell me they were married on one of the Cambodian Islands.
'He told me he loved her so very much, she meant the world to him and he would do anything for her. Unfortunately that was the last I heard.'
A fundraising page has been set up by Robert's mother who says she is barely holding it together after learning of her son's tragic death.
She hopes to raise £3,000 to pay for the cost of travelling to Cambodia to cremate her son.
She writes: 'My only son travelled to Cambodia and married his true love on an island on Christmas day. They were both found dead of an apparent double suicide on New Year's Day. I am desperate to get out there to cremate him and bring his ashes home.'
Cambodian police are continuing to investigate the tragedy.
While Mr Wells was bare chested, his wife was wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan 'Resist!'
'We are convinced this is not murder, despite many people asking questions how these deaths were possible,' said Sihanoukville's deputy police chief Colonel Bour Sothy, who added that investigations are continuing.
This morning, it emerged that the pair are believed to have recorded photos of themselves in the days leading up to their deaths and written their thoughts about death in notebooks.
One of them begged for the notebooks and two memory cards they left in their room to be posted to Ms Goldie's family in London.
Police have not revealed what was written in the notebooks or what the memory cards showed.
It has not been explained why they were both blindfolded and gagged and why their hands were tied.
Some expatriates writing on the Khmer440 website have questioned how - and why - they tied themselves up before dying.
It is understood family members of Mr Wells have confirmed his handwriting in the apparent suicide note in which he blamed Britain's National Health for lack of support for people suffering mental illness.
The bodies of the couple have been sent to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital to be claimed by their families.
It is not known whether the couple's families want the bodies brought back to the UK or whether they will agree to a suggestion in the note that Mr Wells and Ms Goldie should be cremated to save the cost of repatriating their remains.
Cambodia newspapers reported their landlord, named as Ian Goodwin, as saying they were due to leave their rented room on December 29 but did not have the money to pay for their accommodation.
In the apparent suicide note, recovered by police, it read: 'Alternatively, you could save on shipping and have the cremation done here in Sihanoukville.
'It's a beautiful place and we never wanted to leave, but we understand and this will be the choice of our family.
'We are sorry, but hopefully we will find peace from depression, bi-polar, Aspergers and the NHS which has constantly let us down.
'We love you all and hope that memories will take the place of tears, but we are going to be in a better place - either a peaceful oblivion without bad dreams, but who knows, we may find each other again.'
Senior police officer Major General Narin of Sihanoukville said the case was still under investigation.
The British Embassy has been alerted to the gruesome discovery.