Durban - Musgrave couple Nicholas and Matri Molver who tragically died last month after allegedly inhaling a toxic pesticide in their sleep after a neighbouring flat was fumigated will be remembered at a memorial service on Thursday.
Nicholas’s uncle Andre Smith said the memorial service would be a casual event for the families and for those close to the couple to share their grief.
Smith described Nicholas as an old-fashioned gentleman who always put other people first.
“As a young boy when ever I would leave after a visit to his home he would make me promise to call him when I get home and assure him that I was safe.”
The couple would have celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary this month.
“They were the real-life Rome and Juliet, they truly loved each other,” said their aunt and Smith’s partner Ida Jooste.
Netcare 911 said its paramedics responded to a suspected chemical exposure at the couple’s home and found them unresponsive in their bed.
“It was established that an adjoining vacant flat had been fumigated using a white, powder-like substance,” Netcare 911 Shawn Herbst said at the time.
It is believed that the couple may have inhaled a substance banned for residential fumigation.
Pest Control Federation of South Africa vice-president Moses Chetty told The Mercury that according to information he had received, it was alleged that a chemical which should not be used as a pest control chemical in homes had allegedly been used to fumigate the neighbouring vacant flat.
Inquest dockets are being investigated by the police.