Autopsy confirms cemetery heart attack

THE OLD man found dead by four British tourists in Limassol’s British cemetery on Friday died of a heart attack, state pathologist Panicos Stavrianos confirmed yesterday.

The 70-year old man named as Peter Vickery had arrived on the island on January 11 and was staying at a Limassol hotel.

Stavrianos said Vickery had gone to the cemetery to put flowers on the grave of a friend “when the poor guy suffered a heart attack,” Stavrianos said adding that the elderly man had had a heart condition. A vial of pills was found in Vickery’s coat pocket after his body was discovered.

Stavrianos estimated that the time of death was between 10 am and 12 noon on Friday, shortly before the four British tourists found the body, some 12 to 15 feet inside the cemetery gates.

The British tourists initially thought Vickery was asleep and even snapped a couple of pictures.

It was only after they approached the body that they realised Vickery was dead.

The four Britons returned to the UK on Sunday.

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