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Friday, 29 January 2010

DAVID BROOKES, 59, a former Royal Artillery warrant officer and an ex-policeman, was killed by smoke in a fire in the town of Jimena de la Frontera


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DAVID BROOKES, 59, a former Royal Artillery warrant officer and an ex-policeman, was killed by smoke in a fire in the town of Jimena de la Frontera His wife Florence, 58, was found by a passerby in hysterics in the street outside. The fire had already been extinguished when the man entered the house and found the lifeless body of Mr Brookes in a bedroom.
Mrs Brookes, originally from Edinburgh, is recovering from severe shock in hospital.
But her family did not know about the tragedy until they read about it in a newspaper on Friday, January 8.
Mr Brookes' son Paul, 37, said: "It was awful to read this in the paper. It was a dreadful shock’’
"It seems there was a breakdown in communications and the British consulate was not informed about dad's death."


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