Braintree car deaths were the result of suicide
Published:
8:40 AM July 4, 2011
Updated:
8:20 AM November 1, 2020
AN INQUEST into the deaths of two people found dead in a car in Braintree has concluded that the pair killed themselves.
Joanne Lee, 34, of Great Notley and Stephen Lumb, 35, from Yorkshire, died in September last year from a mixture of poisonous chemicals.
It is thought the pair met via a suicide pact website where Ms Lee had posted messages.
Caroline Beasley-Murrary, HM Coroner for Essex and Thurrock, recorded the verdict at County Hall, Chelmsford on Friday afternoon.
She said the case “demonstrated that although the Internet could be a force for good... it could also be the opposite” and described their deaths as a “worrying trend”.
