A jockey from New Zealand found hanged in a Dubai hotel room was booked to fly to Australia for the funeral of a friend who committed suicide the same way a week earlier, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Dubai-based Phillip Alderman apparently took his life using a belt attached to an air-conditioner, police said, quoted in the Gulf News. The body was found on October 19.
The newspaper said the 38-year-old jockey, winner of the Auckland Cup in 1982, was separated from his wife and son last year and further traumatized by the suicide of their former marriage counselor in Melbourne.
He was booked on a flight to Melbourne to attend the funeral but committed suicide instead. Gulf News said Alderman's ashes were to be scattered at the Ellerslie racecourse that was the scene of his Auckland Cup triumph - DUBAI (AFP)
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