Elderly couple planned ‘Romeo and Juliet suicide pact’ – but husband survived and hanged himself
An elderly married couple who agreed to a suicide pact were a ‘modern-day Romeo and Juliet’, an inquest heard. Geoffrey, 89, and Ida Platt, 90, planned their suicide and jointly made the decision to die before they took an overdose of pills in May last year. A neighbour found the couple when they spotted an … Read more