A British woman who died in mysterious circumstances more than 30 years ago in Saudi Arabia was finally to be laid to rest yesterday, said her father.
A British woman who died in mysterious circumstances more than 30 years ago in Saudi Arabia was finally to be laid to rest yesterday, said her father.
Helen Smith, a nurse who was working in Jeddah, fell to her death from an apartment building on May 20, 1979.
Reports said she had been at a party where alcohol was being drunk in a country where it is officially banned and that a man's body was found alongside her. Smith was clothed, but the man was partially undressed, reports at the time said.
"The circumstance of her fall and death are by no means clear," a British judge considering the case said more than three years later.
They still aren't so Smith's body laid in a morgue ever since, with her father refusing to let her be buried.
"Her ashes will be scattered on Ilkley moor on Wednesday," he said.
The official Saudi investigation found that the couple, possibly drunk, had fallen to their deaths.
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