An elderly couple unable to bear living apart committed suicide by drinking cyanide from tea cups at their dining room table, an inquest in the UK heard.
Retired physicist Arthur Prior, 90, probably brewed the deadly poison himself in a lab in the basement.
He sat down with his wife of 60 years, Mary, 87, and they held hands as they sipped from the cups together, after writing suicide notes to their four children.
Neighbours said that the couple were ‘inseparable’ and could not face spending their last days apart.
