He claimed to have been living in the house alongside the body, still suspended from a noose, for eight weeks before finally calling the police.
Officers rushed to the property in a cul-de-sac in Lymington, Hants, after receiving his call and found the woman hanging in one room, heavily decomposed.
The man, whom they have not named but is understood to be in his 50s, was arrested and was being questioned last night in connection with the investigation.
He has allegedly told detectives that his wife hanged herself as part of a joint suicide agreement in September but that he backed out once she was already dead. He claims he then spent the next eight weeks hesitating before finally calling the police.
While the man’s claims are being treated with care they have not been ruled out and Hampshire Police said it was not yet treating the investigation as a murder inquiry.
“At the moment we’ve only got an account and we are trying to get the evidence.”
Did he call their insurance agent before he called the coppers?
To @1 and others who use RSS readers and can’t see the post but can see the comments.
It looks like dvorak.org/blog blocks access to content from certain sites. I noticed this first with my RSS reader at bloglines.com. When I migrated to google reader, I saw the same problem.
I use firefox. I installed the Refcontrol plugin and told it to give no referer(sic) to dvorak.org. I’m now able to view the contents in google reader. If you don’t use firefox or don’t want to use refcontrol or similar, you can open the link in a new tab/window and then go to the address bar and press enter. that’ll reload it with no referrer (I think, in any case, the referer won’t be your RSS reader). Note: opening the link in a new tab or window and then clicking refresh didn’t work for me. Likely my browser was being too helpful and remembering what my previous referer was.
I don’t know if this is on purpose (at dvorak.org/blog) or not. If it’s on purpose, well, you might not see this post. And there’s a philosophical conundrum there. or something
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