 In the months immediately after her husband's death in March 1956, Mrs Hullett had told Adams of her wish to commit suicide.Her daughter, a close friend (who was also her executor) and her two servants later told the police that they believed that she had taken her own life, and the friend added that he had found the letters in which she had contemplated suicide in April 1956, calling her death a "planned suicide".No information about Mrs Hullett's possible suicidal intentions had reached Adams' colleague, Dr Harris, who was called after Mrs Hullett was found comatose.