21 October 2015•Update: 27 October 2015
ISTANBUL
A preliminary Turkish forensics report Wednesday ruled a British former journalist committed suicide at Ataturk Airport over the weekend.
Jacqueline Sutton, 50, hanged herself in the toilets at the airport in the early hours of Sunday as she travelled from London to Irbil, northern Iraq, according to the Council of Forensic Medicine’s report.
The report found she was carrying nearly $2,400 in various foreign currencies -- the bulk, $2,081, in U.S. currency.
Following the findings of the report the public prosecutor recorded her cause of death as suicide.
Sutton, who worked as acting Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, was a former BBC journalist.
The forensics report found she arrived at Ataturk Airport at 9.58 p.m. local time (1858GMT) Saturday and missed her onward 12.15 a.m. (2115GMT) flight to Irbil.
Her body was found by a 25-year-old Russian woman at 1 a.m. (2200GMT), the report added. Officials were alerted and found her hanging behind the toilet door and a police investigation found nothing suspicious.
