Heartbroken wife who found husband dead 'laid down and died beside him'
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The coroner said at an inquest into Raymond Shepherd's death in Southampton that Paula Shepherd's "world had collapsed totally" without him. Mrs Shepherd, who was living in the Southampton area, is believed to have covered Mr Shepherd - a retired bank manager to whom she had been married for more than 40 years - in a duvet and not told anyone of his death for about three days because of shock, according to the Portsmouth News. David Horsley, coroner at Portsmouth Coroner's Court, said both deaths were due to natural causes and it would be difficult to speculate exactly how Mrs Shepherd had passed away.
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