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Agony over reliving 999 call Funeral could only be in March
revealed: “George’s body is still with the coroner in Oxfordshire. His family are finding the wait intolerable. “His body will be there until they have found the cause of death and apparently it is very nearly finished now. “They are planning the funeral with the high priest and will announce the date in time and not long.
The Greek community is very important to the family and they believe that if George had been part of it this, his sad early death would never have happened.”
SHOCKING
Police are continuing to probe George’s last hours and the moments after he died at home.
But yesterday his family were rocked by the release of Fadi’s frantic 999 call after finding his lover’s lifeless body in bed.
In it, Fadi is unable to quickly give the full postcode of George’s cottage, saying he is “shaking”.
The call handler then asks where George’s body is and Fadi replies: “He’s in bed. Dead. He’s cold and he’s blue... yes, he’s very stiff. He’s dead... he’s dead.”
Fadi reveals he has spent an hour trying to revive him. The operator goes on to ask if George’s death was “expected”.
Fadi replies: “No, no, no, no, no, I’ve been waiting for him to wake him up for like, you know, hours and he wouldn’t wake up.
“I went to wake him up and he was gone, you know.”
He adds: “It’s George Michael, you know, the singer?”
Fadi wrongly gives George’s date of birth as July 25 instead of June 25. The operator tells him the ambulance is on its way and not to move the body. Family friend Kyriakos Pourikou said: “It’s shocking to everybody. Of course it’s not nice for us and the rest of the family.”
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust said it launched an “immediate investigation” into the 999 tape’s leak, adding: “We take matters of confidentiality very seriously.”
“As Thames Valley Police are preparing a file for the coroner we are also liaising with Thames Valley Police and are therefore not able to comment further.”