The Court of Inquiry, kept secret at the time, found the cause of death was poisoning by nerve gas.

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Giery said the hospital's diagnosis at the time of death was that his illness was caused by food poisoning from ciguatera, a toxin sometimes found in large saltwater fish including grouper, red snapper and sea bass.

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She died an agonising and slow death at home which, though it was never proved, bore all the hallmarks of poisoning by strychnine.

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