Wife of heir to Tetra Pak fortune killed by cocaine
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December 15, 2012, Saturday
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THE American wife of one of Britain's richest men, whose body lay rotting at their London home for two months after her death, died from cocaine abuse, a coroner said yesterday.
Eva Rausing, whose husband Hans is heir to a fortune from the Swedish packaging firm Tetra Pak, was found in July in an advanced state of decomposition under layers of clothes and bin liners in a second-floor room of their six-story townhouse in London.
The 48-year-old's body was only discovered after police officers went to their house after stopping her husband for driving erratically.
She was found with a silver foil in her hand which had been rolled up as a pipe, indicating it had been used for smoking cocaine. A post-mortem established that she had died over two months earlier in May.
Deputy coroner Shirley Radcliffe ruled that Rausing, who suffered from the heart condition tricuspid valve disease and had had a pacemaker fitted, had died from cocaine intoxication.
Hans Rausing, who was given a suspended 10-month jail sentence in August for preventing the "lawful and decent" burial of his wife, said he had not been able to deal with losing her. "I'm devastated by my beloved wife's death," he said in a statement read to Westminster Coroners' Court.
Eva Rausing, whose husband Hans is heir to a fortune from the Swedish packaging firm Tetra Pak, was found in July in an advanced state of decomposition under layers of clothes and bin liners in a second-floor room of their six-story townhouse in London.
The 48-year-old's body was only discovered after police officers went to their house after stopping her husband for driving erratically.
She was found with a silver foil in her hand which had been rolled up as a pipe, indicating it had been used for smoking cocaine. A post-mortem established that she had died over two months earlier in May.
Deputy coroner Shirley Radcliffe ruled that Rausing, who suffered from the heart condition tricuspid valve disease and had had a pacemaker fitted, had died from cocaine intoxication.
Hans Rausing, who was given a suspended 10-month jail sentence in August for preventing the "lawful and decent" burial of his wife, said he had not been able to deal with losing her. "I'm devastated by my beloved wife's death," he said in a statement read to Westminster Coroners' Court.
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