A timetable that ends in tragedy

EVENTS leading up to the deaths of Gary Alderdice and his Russian lover, Natalia Samofalova, in Vladivostok: August, 1993: Samofalova arrives in Macau from China.

October 8, 1993: She starts work at the Skylight club as a ''dancer''.

January 25, 1994: Alderdice treated in hospital for stab wounds after a violent dispute with his second wife, Pippa, at their Chung Hom Kok home.

March, 1994: Alderdice and Samofalova, who lived in a shared room at the Hotel Fortuna, meet at the Skylight club.

April 5 to May 9: The couple stay at the Westin Resort although she is not registered as a guest.

May 9: Samofalova finishes work at the Skylight club. Later in the month Alderdice returns to Hong Kong and Samofalova returns to Vladivostok and buys a flat.

June 22: Samofalova telephones friends in Macau from a post office in Vladivostock and says Alderdice is flying to see her.