The body of an Indian-born nurse found dead after taking a hoax call to the hospital treating Prince William’s wife was due to arrive in Mangalore on Sunday following a mass in her memory held in London.
Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was found hanged days after answering the prank telephone call from two Australian radio DJs posing as British royals to the hospital where Catherine was admitted during the early stages of her pregnancy.
Mangalore, some 360 kilometres from the high-tech southern city of Bangalore, is where Saldanha’s mother lives along with another daughter and a son.
Saldanha’s body will arrive a day after the nurse’s children told a service at London’s Westminster Cathedral that her death had created “an unfillable void”.
Her husband, 14-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son paid tribute to a loving wife and mother, whose death following what the hospital described as a “cruel trick”, had left them bereft.
“We will miss your laughter, the loving memories and the good times we had together. The house is an empty dwelling without your presence,” her daughter Lisha said.
“We love you Mum,” she said.