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Andy Burns[_6_]

wrote:
jim wrote:
On 11 July, 16:26, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
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So how many people have actually been killed by a 'heater' (presumably
electric) being dropped in the bath?
According to the movies and cheesy whodunnits, lots. In reality, I've no
recall of it actually happening,
Circa late 1970s/ early 1980s, the late Lady Barnet of What's My Line?
TV program fame killed herself by arranging for a wall elec heater to
drop into her bath.

She lived in a very pleasant late Victorian house with its own grounds
in Cossington, Leicestershire, opposite the vets. I know because my
cat escaped into her garden from the vets!!

Her suicide occurred after a widely reported case when she was accused
of shoplifting.

but the newspapers love to perpetuate
old myths.
no myth

I can find little hard evidence for the method of her suicide though
I'm willing to be corrected if you can point me to something.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...950505,00.html