Body of royal hoax nurse reaches India

MANGALORE, India (AFP) - The body of an Indian-born nurse who was found hanged after taking a hoax call to the hospital treating Prince William’s wife arrived in Mangalore on Sunday following a memorial mass in London. Saldanha, 46, apparently committed suicide after answering the prank telephone call from two Australian radio DJs to the hospital where Catherine was admitted during the early stages of her pregnancy. Her funeral is expected to take place on Monday near Mangalore in Shirva, the home town of her husband Benedict Barboza. He accompanied her body on Sunday’s flight to India. “Jacintha and her family, they were working in the UK to earn their daily bread,” Stany Tauro, priest of the Our Lady of Health Church in Shirva, told AFP.

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