Dad killed himself in Morocco 3 days after wife died on holiday

Tragedy ... Mathilde ¿Tilly¿ Lamb and Roger Lamb

A TRAGIC dad threw himself to his death after struggling to cope with the loss of his wife who plunged 60ft from a Morocco apartment balcony three days before, an inquest heard today.

Mathilde ‘Tilly’ Lamb slipped and fell from the third floor of their luxury holiday flat after being woken up in the night by a commotion outside.
Her grief-stricken husband Roger, 47, tried to commit suicide by drowning himself in the sea but was stopped by one of their children.
But just three days after mother-of-four Tilly died he chucked himself off a first floor balcony of a hotel the family had moved into.
The double tragedy couple had endured a rocky marriage for the last five years, the inquest was told.
Wealthy Roger had his heart set on emigrating with his wife and kids to New Zealand.
But 43-year-old Tilly was against the move and the disagreement had put great strain on their relationship.
The couple had contemplated getting divorced and they were sleeping in separate bedrooms.
Cops in Essaouria, western Morocco, were initially stumped by the deaths after locals claimed they’d heard the Lambs rowing before Tilly slipped and fell.
But the Wiltshire and Swindon Coroner’s Court heard they’d both been woken up by noise of revellers celebrating nightfall during the Islamic festival of Ramadan and banging on the door outside their holiday home window.
Tilly lost her footing and plummeted out of the window after she climbed onto a sofa, placing one foot on a wooden railing.
One of her children - who cannot be named for legal reasons - said he had woken to find a room full of locals and police who were trying to comfort Roger.
He said: “I asked my dad what happened and he said that mum had fallen out of the window to her death.
“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 food 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.”
Tilly died in hospital just hours later on August 17.
Roger was found critically injured three days later on August 21, below a balcony at the five-star Sofitel hotel in the centre of Essaouria after telling his family he was going for swim.
He was rushed to the same hospital but transferred 250 miles away to a specialist unit in Marrakech, but died the following day.
Hours after Tilly’s death Roger had made a first attempt to take his own life, packing a rucksack full of rocks and trying to drown himself in the sea.
Tilly’s sister Charlotte Seabag-Montefiore, who jetted out to Morocco following her death, described seeing Roger as “in a state of shock” and very tearful.
She added however that in the days after Tilly’s death he seemed “unbelievably well” just minutes before he fell to his death.
Charlotte said: “At breakfast he was unbelievably well, he had three or four courses, pancakes, chocolate, cake.
“He went upstairs to go to get his swimming stuff. He just seemed a lot more positive. I stayed downstairs to have a cappuccino and when a receptionist screamed ‘madam’.
“We ran out and he was lying at the bottom of the stairs.”
School sweethearts Roger and Tilly had been married for 20 years.
The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death for Tilly and suicide for her husband Roger.