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Princess Diana's step-brother 'overdosed'
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| April 28, 2004 - 4:02PM
Posted on 04/28/2004 6:33:38 AM PDT by dead
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
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cambodia; death; princessdiana; shandkydd
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posted on
04/28/2004 6:33:38 AM PDT
by
dead
To: dead
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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posted on
04/28/2004 6:36:58 AM PDT
by
gedeon3
To: dead
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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posted on
04/28/2004 6:38:40 AM PDT
by
tdadams
(If there were no problems, politicians would have to invent them... wait, they already do.)
To: tdadams
I thought the same thing. It must be gorgeous. Plus, it's back on the market!
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posted on
04/28/2004 7:00:00 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
Well, he won't have trouble sleeping now.
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posted on
04/28/2004 7:06:00 AM PDT
by
ladylib
To: dead
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
To: gedeon3
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
They aren't related to King George III are they?
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posted on
04/28/2004 7:22:48 AM PDT
by
mass55th
To: fourdeuce82d
SO THAT'S WHY PEOPLE USE ALL CAPS!!!!!!
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posted on
04/28/2004 7:59:43 AM PDT
by
duckworth
To: dead
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.
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posted on
04/28/2004 8:40:04 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: dead
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."
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posted on
04/28/2004 8:52:41 AM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(This fatwah direct to you from the holy city of Skokie Illinois.)
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