Mother dies after internet love tryst

www.thisislondon.com ^ | July 15, 2003 | Nigel Rosser

[Bubba_Leroy]

A mother who walked out on her husband and children for a stranger she had an affair with over the internet dropped dead within hours of meeting her new lover in person, an inquest heard.

Kim Russell, 35, collapsed naked in front of Stephen Lambert in a hotel room 48 hours after leaving her unsuspecting husband of 15 years.

She had been carrying on the electronic affair for two months but had never seen Mr Lambert in the flesh.

Mrs Russell abandoned her husband Michael and her children Ashley, 13, and Jade, eight, two days after Christmas. She had arranged to meet up with Mr Lambert at the Travelodge hotel six miles from her family home in Yeovil, Somerset.

The couple were celebrating with a bottle of wine when she complained of stomach pains and feeling unwell. She collapsed and Mr Lambert, from Newcastle, called for help.

Hotel staff rushed to her assistance but she was dead before paramedics could arrive. The inquest heard she probably fell victim to "sudden death syndrome", which kills more than 3,000 adults under 40 every year.

Michael Russell told the inquest how his wife had left him and their two children "out of the blue" two days after Christmas. He had not known of her secret affair with Mr Lambert via email and text messages.

Mrs Russell, a carer at a residential home, booked into the Travelodge at Podimore for three nights with Mr Lambert while they started looking for a house together.

Then on 29 December Mr Lambert burst into reception shouting "She's not breathing." Receptionist Mary Buxton, who rushed to Mrs Russell's aid, said: "Mrs Russell was laid on the bed naked. I knew she was dead."

Mrs Russell, who barely drank and did not smoke, was pronounced dead at Yeovil District Hospital.

Pathologist Hugh White carried out a full post-mortem but could find no explanation for Mrs Russell's death. She had had dizzy spells which could indicate an abnormal heart rhythm.

South Somerset coroner Tony Williams recorded an open verdict, telling Mr Russell the CID had thoroughly investigated his wife's death. "You can have peace of mind," he said.

[Bubba_Leroy]

sudden death syndrome?

[wideawake]

Is that linked to Sudden Getting-what-you-deserve-for-walking-out-on-your-family Syndrome (SGS)?

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

The inquest heard she probably fell victim to "sudden death syndrome", which kills more than 3,000 adults under 40 every year.

That's what I call a major league ZOT.

[oceanperch]

Sounds more like what comes around goes around instantly sydrome.

I know I suffer from this in the instantly form so I am very careful in all my actions/words and life choices.

[jim_trent]

> She had been carrying on the electronic affair for two
> months but had never seen Mr Lambert in the flesh.

Maybe seeing him in the flesh is what killed her?

[You Dirty Rats]

Sudden Death Syndrome - First discovered in 1993 in a park in Washington, D.C. Definitively identified over the years 1993-2001. Applies to seemingly healthy people who, for no apparant reason, drop dead.

No cause has been identified by medical professionals; the only connection seems to be some relationship to a man from Arkansas who is best known for serial adultery with a host of undistinguished women.

A possible connection between the deceased internet lover and the aforementioned philanderer is being examined by Scotland Yard, as the philanderer was recently spotted in England.

Previous suspected victims of SDS include: Vincent Foster, Ron Brown, and Jim McDougal.

[DoughtyOne]

SADS

Sudden Adult Death Syndrome

First I've heard of it. I thought this usually involved an infant and a crib.

[contessa machiaveli]

ZOT? please define.

another question, internet sex (in my opinion isn't adultery). adultery is when you have sexual relations with another person in the flesh.

i'm curious about everyone's opinion....should make for a lively discussion.

[Diddle E. Squat]

It can get awkward when one is drop-dead gorgious...

[Lazamataz]

sudden death syndrome?

That's what they call it when G-d strikes you dead.

[Diddle E. Squat]

internet sex (in my opinion isn't adultery). adultery is when you have sexual relations with another person in the flesh.

Only if you discard the New Testament...

[kegler4]

Clinton did it.

[tippytoes]

Good one!

[Judith Anne]

Can be caused by an abnormal heart rhythm. One of those is called "long Q-T" if I remember correctly, it's an electrical disturbance, can have multiple causes.

[Alouette]

The couple were celebrating with a bottle of wine when she complained of stomach pains and feeling unwell.

What was in that bottle of "wine"?

[LPStar]

Presumably the lover did not manage to kill her in some bizarre manner that would require an ace forensic pathologist to discover?

[wideawake]

If we define adultery as intercourse outside of marriage then internet dalliances are not adultery in a clinical sense.

But they are in a moral sense, and they are in every way adulterous. They are a violation of one's marriage vows, they constitute an alienation of affection legally, and they are deeply sinful.

[isthisnickcool]

karma

\Kar"ma\, n. [Skr.] (Buddhism) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

[HamiltonJay]

Ah yes, that's it God struck her dead because she left or cheated on her husband... yea yea...

Be real. If that sort of punishment were metered out for those infractions, there would be a lot fewer 40something men with plugs and gold chains around their necks chasing the 20somethings in the bar scenes.

[Colofornian]

sudden death syndrome? That's what they call it when G-d strikes you dead.

Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Acts 5:5, 10. S=Sapphira A=Ananias