Nurse in Princess hospital hoax commits suicide

[April]

Badump..dah..dump.

Angel is here all week.

Thank you-thank you...

 

[April]

Methinks there is going to be an opening for DJ's in Australia.

Well...there's definitely a new opening for a nurse at King Edward VII Hospital in London.

It seems they are advertising already.

"WANTED: Lackey nurse / telephone receptionist for exclusive private royal hospital with VIP private royal patients from time to time. Must be ready to top herself if performance disappoints royalty in any way. Can-do-or-die work ethic expected."​

 

[waltky]

Austereo to pay $525,000 for prank call by DJ's...

Nurse left suicide note, Aussie radio sets up $525,000 fund (+video)
December 12, 2012 - Nurse left suicide note: Jacintha Saldanha, a hospital nurse, left a suicide note, report British media. Will the note clear the Australian DJs of responsibility for her death or reinforce public opinion?

The Australian radio station behind a prank call to a British hospital will donate its advertising revenue until the end of the year to a fund for the family of the nurse who apparently took her own life after the stunt, the company said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, British media are reporting the existence of a suicide note left by nurse, Jacintha Saldanha, but the contents have not been made public. Southern Cross Austereo, parent company of Sydney radio station 2Day FM, said it would donate all advertising revenue, with a minimum contribution of A$500,000 ($525,000), to a memorial fund for nurse Saldanha, who answered the telephone at the hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate.

The company has suspended the Sydney-based announcers, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, scrapped their "Hot 30" program and suspended advertising on the station in the wake of the Saldanha's death. Southern Cross said it would resume advertising on its station from Thursday. "It is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts continue to be with the family," Southern Cross Chief Executive Officer Rhys Holleran said in a statement. "We hope that by contributing to a memorial fund we can help to provide the Saldanha family with the support they need at this very difficult time."But he Australian radio station said on Saturday it had done nothing wrong and no one could have foreseen the tragic outcome. There has been renewed soul-searching over media ethics after Saldanha, 46, the nurse who was duped by the station's call to the King Edward VII hospital, was found dead on Friday in a suspected suicide.

The hoax, in which the radio hosts - posing as Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles despite Australian accents - successfully inquired after Kate's medical condition, has made worldwide headlines. On Saturday, Australians from Prime Minister Julia Gillard to people in the street expressed their sorrow and cringed at how the hoax had crossed the line of acceptability. Two large companies suspended their advertising from the popular Sydney-based station and a media watchdog said it would speak with 2DayFM's owners. Users of social media sites such as Twitter expressed outrage.

The hoax also raised concerns about the ethical standards of Australian media, as Britain's own media scramble to agree a new system of self regulation and avoid state intervention following a damning inquiry into reporting practices. Southern Cross Austereo Chief Executive Rhys Holleran told a news conference in Melbourne on Saturday that the company would work with authorities in any investigation, but that it was too early to draw conclusions. He said he was "very confident" that the radio station had done nothing illegal.

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[waltky]

Kate's hoax nurse hung herself...

Inquest: Nurse in British royal hoax found hanging
Dec 13,`12 -- A nurse was found hanging in her room three days after she had been duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, a U.K. inquest was told Thursday. The case is being treated as an apparent suicide.

Coroner's officer Lynda Martindill said nurse Jacintha Saldanha was discovered hanging by a scarf from a wardrobe in her nurses' quarters Friday by a colleague and a member of security staff at London's King Edward VII Hospital. Martindill said an attempt to revive Saldanha failed. Police detective chief inspector James Harman said Saldanha, 46, also had injuries to her wrists. He told the inquest at Westminster Coroner's Court that two notes were found at the scene and another was found among Saldanha's belongings. He said there were no suspicious circumstances, meaning nobody else was involved in Saldanha's death.

Harman said police were examining the notes, interviewing the nurse's friends, family and colleagues and looking at emails and phone calls to establish what led to her death. He also said detectives would be contacting police in the Australian state of New South Wales to collect "relevant evidence." Saldanha answered the phone last week when two Australian disc jockeys called seeking information about the former Kate Middleton, who was being treated for severe morning sickness. The DJs impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, and Saldanha was tricked into transferring the call to another nurse, who revealed private details about the duchess' condition.

The DJs, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, apologized for the prank in emotional interviews on Australian television, saying they never expected their call would be put through. The show was taken off the air and the DJs have been suspended. Australia's media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, said Thursday it was launching an official investigation into whether radio station 2DayFM breached its broadcasting license conditions and the industry code of practice. In London, coroner Fiona Wilcox opened and adjourned Saldanha's inquest until March 26. Wilcox expressed "my sympathies to her family and everybody who has been touched by this tragic death."

In Britain, inquests are held to determine the facts whenever someone dies unexpectedly, violently or in disputed circumstances. Inquests do not determine criminal liability or apportion blame. The local authority, Westminster Council, said Saldanha's body was released to her family after Thursday's hearing. Saldanha, who was born in India, lived in Bristol in southwestern England with her husband and two teenage children. Her husband, Benedict Barboza, has said she will be laid to rest in Shirva, India. The family was not in court. Lawmaker Keith Vaz, who has spoken on their behalf, said the nurse's loved ones "need time to grieve." Vaz said a memorial Mass would be held Saturday at London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral.

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[waltky]

Dey was mean to her at work an' made fun of her `bout the hoax...

‘Nurse in hoax call criticised hospital staff in suicide note’
Sat Dec 15 2012, An Indian-origin nurse, found dead days after she fell for a hoax call to the hospital treating Princess Kate, has criticised her senior colleagues in one of the three emotional suicide notes she left behind, a media report said Friday.

Jacintha Saldanha, 46, wrote three emotional notes revealing the anguish that led to her suicide after she was duped by two Australian RJs into believing they were royalty, the Daily Mirror reported. In one, the distraught mum-of-two outlines how she struggled to come to terms with the prank call by Australian RJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian to the hospital where a pregnant Kate was being treated for severe morning sickness.

But in another she criticises senior colleagues at the King Edward VII hospital over her treatment after the pair had pretended to be the Queen and Prince Charles asking about the duchess’s condition. It is believed the nurse’s suicide note has left her grieving family furious, with husband Ben Barboza understood to want an inquiry into the hospital.

A source close to Saldanha’s family was quoted by the paper as saying: “One of the letters, which is the longest, deals with the hospital and is critical in its tone. Needless to say, Ben wants a full inquiry into what happened, and he wants to make sure the truth comes out. Within the letter Jacintha calls into question some of the treatment she received at the hospital.

Scotland Yard detectives are examining the notes, as well as interviewing Saldanha’s friends, family and colleagues at the hospital. The family have been provided with transcripts of all three notes.

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[waltky]

Granny says dey oughta burn crosses in dey's front yards...

Royal prank radio hosts receive death threats
Sat, Dec 15, 2012 - Death threats have been made against the Australian radio hosts involved in the royal prank call tragedy, police said yesterday, with station management reportedly moving some staff to safehouses.

The revelations came as a London inquest showed the nurse who fielded the hoax call, Jacintha Saldanha, 46, hanged herself. The mother-of-two was found dead on Friday last week, three days after transferring the call to a colleague who divulged details about Britain’s Prince William’s pregnant wife, Catherine, who was recovery from severe morning sickness. Saldanha was discovered in nurses’ quarters near the private King Edward VII’s Hospital in central London where Kate was being treated. She also had wrist injuries and left three notes. Australian police have launched an investigation into the death threats after a letter targeting presenter Michael Christian was seized, warning him there were “bullets out there with your name on it.”

The letter was obtained by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, which said further threats were made involving a shotgun which it said were inappropriate to print. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said staff at 2Day FM’s parent company, Southern Cross Austereo, have been receiving threats all week. “Police are conducting an investigation into threats made against two Sydney radio presenters,” a New South Wales police spokesman said. “Detectives seized a letter which contained a number of threats. Detectives are conducting an investigation into the matter and are attempting to identify the source of the letter.” The Telegraph said about a dozen staff at the broadcaster have been moved to hotels for their safety and up to 10 executives have been assigned bodyguards.

Southern Cross Austereo would only say that “the safety of our employees is an absolute priority.” “We have sensible measures in place, as we always do, to ensure our people are safe,” a spokeswoman said. Christian and fellow host Mel Greig, who have been undergoing counseling, remain off air and have not been seen in public since making tearful apologies in a television interview on Monday. It follows the pair posing as Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and William’s father, Prince Charles, in a hoax call to the hospital, which sparked an outpouring of global anger against them. Senior British police officer James Harman told the inquest there were “no suspicious circumstances” surrounding Saldanha’s death. “Jacintha Saldanha was found by a colleague and a member of security staff. Sadly she was found hanging. There were also injuries to her wrist,” he told Westminster Coroner’s Court.

Two notes were found in her room and another was among her possessions, Harman added, without revealing their contents at this preliminary stage. Police are also looking at telephone calls and e-mails to see if they shed more light on her death, he said, with Scotland Yard expected to contact Australian police about interviewing people there. Indian-born Saldanha’s husband, Benedict Barboza, and two teenage children did not attend the short hearing. The radio station has pledged at least A$500,000 (US$523,600) to help the grieving family, although British lawmaker Keith Vaz, who has been acting as their spokesman, said the broadcaster had not done enough.

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[skye]

That woman chose to kill herself. Period.

Nobody but her to blame, her life her decision.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Hang `em - give `em a trial an' den hang `em...

Australian DJs could face charges over deadly prank
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 - British prosecutors will decide whether to pursue charges against two Australian DJs, police said on Saturday, after a nurse who took a hoax call to a hospital treating Prince William’s pregnant wife, Catherine, apparently killed herself.

Scotland Yard said officers last week sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) over the prank earlier this month by presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian, from Sydney’s 2Day FM radio station. Indian-born nurse Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was found hanged in her lodgings near King Edward VII’s Hospital in central London, where Catherine was being treated for acute morning sickness, on Dec. 7. “Following the death of Jacintha Saldanha, officers have liaised with the CPS as to whether any criminal offenses had been committed in relation to the hoax call made to King Edward VII’s Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday, Dec. 4,” Scotland Yard said in a statement.

It said officers submitted a file to the CPS on Wednesday for it to consider whether any potential offenses may have been committed by making the hoax call. British media said no announcement had been made until Saturday because police wanted to be sure they had contacted all the relevant family members of Saldanha. In England and Wales, the CPS is responsible for deciding whether charges will proceed in criminal cases, while police are responsible for investigating and collecting evidence. At the nurse’s funeral in India on Monday, her widower, Benedict Barboza, and the couple’s two teenage children said British police were investigating the tragedy “and they have assured us of a full and fair investigation.”

A London inquest heard last week that Saldanha had been found hanged in staff accommodation and there were no suspicious circumstances over her death. She also had marks on her wrist. Saldanha left three notes, one of which reportedly criticized colleagues over her treatment at the hospital. British detectives told the inquest they would be asking their counterparts in the Australian state of New South Wales to help them carry out interviews. It was not immediately clear how British prosecutors could pursue foreigners for a possible offense that originated outside Britain.

Australian DJs could face charges over deadly prank - Taipei Times

 

[Peter Dow]

Granny says, "Hang `em - give `em a trial an' den hang `em...

Australian DJs could face charges over deadly prank
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 - British prosecutors will decide whether to pursue charges against two Australian DJs, police said on Saturday, after a nurse who took a hoax call to a hospital treating Prince William’s pregnant wife, Catherine, apparently killed herself.

Scotland Yard said officers last week sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) over the prank earlier this month by presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian, from Sydney’s 2Day FM radio station. Indian-born nurse Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was found hanged in her lodgings near King Edward VII’s Hospital in central London, where Catherine was being treated for acute morning sickness, on Dec. 7.

British prosecutors would do better to prosecute the Queen's UK police for the murder and manslaughter of British citizens.

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If they need to prosecute someone over this suicide then prosecute William and Kate for choosing that hospital and the hospital management for employing that suicidal nurse in a role she was not suitable for.

Diane Sawyer - royalist traitor to the American republic.

And American prosecutors should prosecute Diane Sawyer of ABC World News for running pro-royal, pro-Queen, pro-William & Kate news stories and brainwashing stupid ape viewers into valuing the royals instead of wanting them exiled from Britain or assassinated to allow the British people republics and presidents instead of a kingdom and a monarch. The charge would be treason against the American republic - because kingdoms like the UK make for weak allies for the USA and supporting a republican revolution in Britain would be being loyal to the American republic whereas supporting the royals undermines the American republic at home and abroad.

So Diane Sawyer is a traitor to America and should go to jail.

 

[waltky]

Granny says fire dey's butts...

Royal hoax radio show cancelled
28 January 2013 - DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian are still employed by 2Day FM

The Australian radio show that made the hoax call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge in December has been cancelled. 2Day FM's Hot 30 programme had been taken off air following the death of nurse Jacintha Saldana, who was found hanged after forwarding the call. The broadcaster said a new show, hosted by a different DJ, would fill the slot. Michael Christian and Mel Greig, the DJs who made the call, were still employed by the station, it added.

The pair have been on leave since the incident and a music-based show without a host DJ has been broadcast in their show's place. "We look forward to Mel and MC returning to work when the time is right, in roles that make full use of their talents," said Rhys Holleran of Southern Cross Austereo, owner of 2Day FM. "We will discuss future roles with them when they are ready,"

The Duchess was being treated at King Edward VII's Hospital for an extreme form of morning sickness when Christian and Greig made their prank call pretending to be members of the Royal Family. Mrs Saldana answered the call and put them through to another nurse who gave an update on the Duchess's condition. Jacintha Saldana was found hanged at her home three days later.

Last month the Australian media watchdog launched a formal inquiry to examine whether any broadcasting rules had been breached. 2Day FM also pledged to give at least 500,000 Australian dollars (£330,600) from its advertising profits to the family of Mrs Saldana.

BBC News - Royal hoax radio show cancelled

 

[Katzndogz]

As far as hoaxes go. This was was mild. The queen called and asked about the Dutchess's tummy bug. You can't get more innocuous than that. The practice of SWATTING in this country is much worse. So the nurse left a note that criticized the hospital. But we really don't know what the criticism was or how heavily her participation in the hoax weighed in on her decision to take her life.