Christ Church Man Leaps To Death After Failing To Save Wife.

A Christchurch-based engineer threw himself to his death
four days after he failed to save his wife from a fatal fall
during a family holiday in Morocco, an inquest in London
has heard.
At the time of their deaths, Roger and Mathilde Lamb's 19-year
marriage was "on a knife-edge" amid financial concerns and
disagreement about leaving England to start a new life in New
Zealand, the Daily Mail reports.
Mrs Lamb, known as Tilly, slipped out an apartment window and fell
to her death during the night on August 17 last year.
The family, including their children, had been staying in a rented
apartment in the coastal Moroccan town of Essaouira.
Four days later, a grieving Mr Lamb leapt to his death at a nearby
hotel.
It was Mr Lamb's second suicide attempt following his wife's death,
an inquest into both deaths heard last week.
He had previously walked into the sea wearing a rucksack full of
rocks but was rescued and taken to hospital.
Coroner David Ridley ruled Mrs Lamb, 43, died an "accidental
death" and Mr Lamb, 47, committed suicide after seeing his wife
fall.
One of the couple's children told the inquest they woke to find the
apartment filled with police on the night their mother died.
"I asked my dad what happened and he said that mum had fallen out
of the window to her death," the child said in a statement.
"He said there was a lot of banging going on downstairs and mum
had gone to the window in the living room to see what it was.
"She had stood on the sofa and put her foot on the wooden railing
across the window and had then fallen.
"Dad said he had rushed to stop her but hadn't managed to catch her
feet and she had fallen."
The family originally denied reports the couple had been arguing at
the time of their deaths.
But the inquest heard they had spoken about divorce and disagreed
about relocating to New Zealand where Mr Lamb worked as a
structural engineer.
Mrs Lamb's sister, Charlotte Sebag-Montefiore, said Mr Lamb was
"unbelievably well" the morning before he committed suicide.
"He went upstairs to go to get his swimming stuff. He just seemed a
lot more positive," Mrs Sebag-Montefiore told the inquest.
"I stayed downstairs to have a cappuccino when a receptionist
screamed 'madam'. We ran out and he was lying at the bottom of the
stairs."
The coroner ruled the names, ages, gender and number of the
Lambs' children could not be reported.