Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Nov 18: Jerome Sequeira (79), a citizen of Switzerland, reportedly ended life by jumping into a hotel well late night on Tuesday November 16. Jerome, who, it is gathered, used to suffer from high blood pressure and loss of memory, and his body was found floating in the well on Wednesday.
On November 16, Jerome and his wife, Magrel Sequiera, had hired a room in Gateway Hotel in the city. The room had been booked till November 18.
On Wednesday morning, the body of Jerome, who is originally from Kinnigoly, but migrated to Switzerland for a job when young, and secured citizenship of that country later, was found floating in the well. Jerome had later married a citizen of that country. Out of the three children of the couple, two are in Switzerland, while the third one is in USA.
It is said, the couple returned to their room after visiting a few relatives in Kinnigoly on Tuesday evening. Jerome, who woke up at around 1.40 pm, went out of the room, telling his wife that he wanted to go for a walk. The closed circuit cameras in the hotel showed him going out of the hotel through its exit.
Post mortem of the body was conducted in the government Wenlock Hospital here. His body has been kept in the mortuary of the said hospital. A case has been registered in this connection, in Pandeshwar police station.