Hoax call radio hosts hide out in Sydney
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Sydney - The Australian radio presenters behind the prank phone call to a London hospital that may have led to the apparent suicide of a nurse were Sunday described as being in a "fragile"mental state.
Mel Greig and Michael Christian were being kept in secret locations by 2Day FM as a backlash built up over their hoax call asking after the welfare of the duchess of Cambridge during the early stages of her pregnancy.
Reporters besieged a Sydney hotel where they believed Christian was staying after a spokeswoman for station owner Southern Cross Austereo told domestic news agency AAP that the pair would speak to reporters but that the timing of their press conference would depend on their mental state - described as "fragile." 2Day FM has been barraged by hostile messages on social media since Jacintha Saldanha was reportedly found dead in a King Edward VII Hospital apartment on Friday.
There is speculation she took her own life after the humiliation of being duped by the Sydney radio shock jocks.
There have been hundreds of postings on a Facebook page, RIP Jacintha Saldanha, demanding retribution for the death of the 46-year-old mother of two.
Saldanha took the call and passed it on to a duty nurse, who was recorded answering questions she thought came from Queen Elizabeth IIand Prince Charles.//DPA
