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Husband tells of wife's death in Phuket

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Goldman Sachs Asia-Pacific vice-chairman and former Law Society president Tim Freshwater still isn't clear how his wife of 27 years fell to her death at a five-star resort in Phuket last weekend.

'We still don't know whether she slipped or whether she fainted or whether she sat on the edge of the handrail ... She might have sat on that and then fallen backwards, but we just don't know,' he said.

The pair were at the Amanpuri in Phuket, Thailand, to attend a wedding. Judy Freshwater was returning alone to their room after dinner on Saturday night when she fell.

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Her husband stayed to say goodbye to friends. He left 10 minutes later, but she was nowhere to be found.

After an hour-long search, the woman's body was found in a garden 31/2 metres below an elevated walkway that runs between the resort's restaurant and its rooms.

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A medical report said her neck broke and she died instantly, but it is not known what caused her to fall.

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