Suicide pact strangers 'met on the internet'
Two strangers who gassed themselves in a car had met for the first time just hours before they died after making a suicide pact on the internet, police believe
Joanne Lee and Steve Lumb were found dead in a vehicle on an industrial estate in Braintree, Essex last Monday. Miss Lee is understood to have posted a message on a suicide forum begging someone to join her in a suicide pact. The 34-year-old wrote: "I haven't the strength to do this alone. I'm not a cop, a cannibal or a murderer, just desperate. I have all the ingredients and want to do it ASAP". Her plea was answered by Mr Lumb, a lorry driver, who drove 200 miles from his home town of Sowerby, West Yorks, to join her. Their bodies were found in his fume-filled Vauxhall Astra in Miss Lee's home town. Police believe they met for the first time hours before they died, by mixing chemicals in a bucket to make a lethal gas. Telegraph