An elderly couple found dead in their Nelson home on Tuesday had died two days earlier, according to a death notice.
Bob and Betty Jackson, aged 88 and 84 respectively, died in an apparent double suicide.
Police were alerted by a visitor to the house that the couple were not
answering their door and meals left at the address had not been taken inside, Detective Sean Young, of Nelson police, said.
Police entered the house and found the Jacksons dead in an apparent assisted suicide/suicide, he said.
A death notice in today's Dominion Post said they died on July 31 - two days before they were found.
