Princess Diana's step-brother 'overdosed'

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | April 28, 2004 - 4:02PM

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The step-brother of the late Princess Diana died after an apparent overdose of sleeping pills in Cambodia, where he had been since early this month, police said today.

Adam Shand Kydd, 49, arrived in the impoverished South-East Asian nation as a tourist on April 2 and was paying $1770 per month rent for a luxury home in the capital, Phnom Penh.

He was found dead on Monday evening after his maid contacted the police.

"We think he could have died from overuse of sleeping pills," said Prak Nhat, an autopsy police official. "No one killed him."

Shand Kydd had been complaining about headaches for days and had told his maid he was having problems sleeping, police said.

His body was handed over to the British embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday.

Reuters

[gedeon3]

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[tdadams]

Adam Shand Kydd, 49, arrived in the impoverished South-East Asian nation as a tourist on April 2 and was paying $1770 per month rent for a luxury home in the capital, Phnom Penh.

$1770 per month for a place in Cambodia?? That had to be one heck of a mansion. The average income is $30 a month and $1770 is just about enough to rent a place for a year in most parts of Cambodia.

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I thought the same thing. It must be gorgeous. Plus, it's back on the market!

[ladylib]

Well, he won't have trouble sleeping now.

[fourdeuce82d]

Oh Yeah? DO YOU THINK PEOPLE JUST "OVERDOSE"?? YOU ARE ALL SHEEPLE! THEY WERE REMOTE CONTROLLED SLEEPING PILLS. IT WAS THE WORK OF MI5.35, AND I CAN PROVE IT BY USING ALL CAPS!!!

/sarcasm

[mass55th]

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

They aren't related to King George III are they?

[duckworth]

SO THAT'S WHY PEOPLE USE ALL CAPS!!!!!!

[Cicero]

That whole area is a refuge for hippy drug addicts. If he was paying $1770 a month for rent alone, then I suspect he was what used to be called a "remittance man": a black-sheep member of an aristocratic family who is paid a monthly salary for staying out of the country as far as possible from his embarrassed relatives.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Pnom Penh? The ghosts in that place probably came for him and dragged him off. "You come with us, Mr. Decadent Eurotrash, we show you strange new high."