Childhood sweethearts made suicide pact

By Richard Savill Published: 5:08PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Retired shopkeepers Gloria and Geoffrey Davis, both 74, explained their preference in a tape-recorded summary to their son and dual daughters, that said: `We are unequivocally contemptible but it is the usually way.

Mrs Davis fought breast cancer for dual years but had been told it had widespread to her lymph nodes and was incurable, the inquisition heard.

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She died after receiving a reduction of painkillers dissolved in a potion of H2O that was found next to her physique at their home in Barnstaple, Devon.

Her father was found unresolved from the roof tiles beams on the landing. Notes were found nearby.

The Greater Devon coroner Elizabeth Earland available a outcome of self-murder on

Mr Davis, and an open outcome on his wife.

The coroner pronounced it was unfit to establish either Mrs Davis drank the reduction herself or was helped.

The inquisition in Barnstaple listened the couples daughter Martine Gardener and her father Jonathan lived dual doors afar and were alerted after Mr Gardener found a note on his van.

It read: "Jon. Please come over home. Not good. Dad."

Mrs Gardener pronounced at the time of the deaths in Apr last year: "They were only the majority amatory couple, you couldn"t ask for improved parents. They"ve never been detached and I think they only longed for to stay together."