The British forensics service on Tuesday suspended its probe into the death of the last surviving child of the ousted Shah of Iran, Leyla Pahlavi, due to what the investigating judge called "contradictory remarks" by her doctor, reported the official Iranian news agency, IRNA.
The suspended investigations will be resumed on August 8, said IRNA, citing the British Association News Agency on Wednesday.
Pahlavi, according to the news agency of the Islamic republic, died from overdosing on Seconal and cocaine in her Leonardo Hotel room in London last month.
The British News Agency has quoted her physician as saying that she had once swiped another patient's prescription off his desk.
Mangad Iqbal told the forensics service that the woman had visited him three times that year, and that she was deeply depressed the last time.
He also said that his late patient was suffering from irregular eating habits, for which he had prescribed medicine.
The forensic technician's report said Pahlavi died of an overdose of epilepsy medicine, along with sleeping pills, cocaine and strong anesthetics, the official Iranian agency said in a later portion of its report.
According to IRNA, Mangad's explanations did not solve the forensics service's unanswered questions about the case and made them more complicated.
The forensic technician's investigation into the case and Mangad's explanations at the police station did not match up.
Paul Knapman of the forensics service has asked Mangad to provide a detailed list of the medicine he prescribed to the princess to figure out how she obtained access to that much potentially lethal medicine, said IRNA.
The Shah of Iran was ousted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and subsequently died in exile – Albawaba.com
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