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Mathilde and Roger Lamb inquests: Couple fell to deaths in Morocco | Mathilde and Roger Lamb inquests: Couple fell to deaths in Morocco |
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A couple from Worcestershire fell to their deaths in separate incidents a few days apart while on holiday in Morocco, an inquest has heard. | A couple from Worcestershire fell to their deaths in separate incidents a few days apart while on holiday in Morocco, an inquest has heard. |
It is thought Mathilde Lamb, 43, fell 60ft (18m) from her apartment as she remonstrated with revellers celebrating Ramadan in the street below. | It is thought Mathilde Lamb, 43, fell 60ft (18m) from her apartment as she remonstrated with revellers celebrating Ramadan in the street below. |
Her husband Roger, 47, is believed to have killed himself by jumping from a balcony on 22 August last year. | |
The couple's deaths in the resort of Essaouira left their children orphans. | The couple's deaths in the resort of Essaouira left their children orphans. |
Marriage on 'knife-edge' | |
The inquest, at Trowbridge civic hall in Wiltshire, heard the couple, from Pensham, both died from their injuries in hospital. | The inquest, at Trowbridge civic hall in Wiltshire, heard the couple, from Pensham, both died from their injuries in hospital. |
Their marriage had been "on a knife-edge" and they were concerned with financial problems in the months before the holiday, the court heard. | |
The hearing was told that shortly after his wife's death on 17 August, Mr Lamb, a geotechnical civil engineer, had been stopped by locals from wading into the sea carrying a backpack full of rocks. | |
The court heard the couple's children, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were said to have been waiting to meet their father after breakfast a few days later. | |
It was then that they discovered he had fallen from a second-floor balcony at their new accommodation, a few streets away from where Mrs Lamb fell. |