Lovers left 'suicide apology' note (From This is The West Country)

Lovers left 'suicide apology' note

2:08pm Tuesday 5th May 2009 in National News © Press Association 2011

A hotelier has told how he found two women dead in their room after they carried out an apparent suicide pact.

The lovers, named in reports as Bose Ore, 30, and Frances Hamilton, were discovered in a bedroom of the Costello Palace Hotel in Finsbury Park, north London, just before lunchtime on Sunday.

They had left a suicide note saying: "Sorry for the inconvenience".

Hotel owner Antonakis Chrysostomou, 67, said the pair failed to check out on time, so he opened the door to their room.

"They were close together on the bed and they looked like they were asleep," he said.

He said he found a suicide note on the floor of the room.

On Sunday the discovery of a powder in the room prompted police to evacuate the hotel and close off roads in the surrounding area.

A Met Police spokesman said the women were "believed to have committed suicide by taking noxious substance".

Officers are awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations.

Mr Chrysostomou, who is a Cypriot and has run the hotel for 20 years, said a Chinese mother had taken an overdose in a hotel room two years ago. She survived after receiving treatment from paramedics.