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Article: Love letters from beyond the grave; EXCLUSIVE: The passionate notes between Dr Richard Stevens and the mother of a young patient chart their doomed affair, which finally drove him to a lonely suicide.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 26, 2004
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Byline: SARAH OLIVER;KEITH BEABY
EIGHTEEN months ago, children's doctor Richard Stevens vanished so suddenly his jacket was still left on the back of his chair in the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
Then, early this year, his body was found in a remote cave in the Lake District. He had killed himself with a cocktail of drugs. His widow Eirwen blamed work pressures, but an inquest revealed he had a secret mistress.
And, last week, the full, tragic details of the affair were uncovered. While out tobogganing, Benjamin Johnson and Louise Goodall, both 21, stumbled on a cache of letters between the ill-fated pair, hidden in an abandoned ...