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Students at a nursing college hold posters of nurse Jacintha Saldanha during a candle light vigil in the Southern Indian city of Bangalore on Dec. 13, 2012.
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By NBC News staff
Memorial services were held Friday in Britain and Thursday in India for Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse duped by two Australian radio show hosts into putting through a prank call to the hospital ward of the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge.
A Mass was set to be held at London's Westminster Cathedral Saturday,?NBC partner ITV News reported. The service will be offered "for the repose of the soul of Jacintha and her grieving family," a spokesman for the Cathedral told ITV.
A private memorial service was held Friday at the King Edward VII Hospital, where Saldanha worked, and another at St Teresa's Church in Bristol, where the nurse's family lived.
"King Edward VII's is a small hospital, with a tight-knit team," John Lofthouse, the hospital's chief executive, said in a statement. "Everybody knew Jacintha, and we were all left deeply shocked by her tragic death following the hoax telephone call. Today's Service was a chance for everyone here to pay their respects and remember a dear colleague."
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An undated family photograph of Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who died after being hoaxed by an Australian radio show trying to reach Prince William's wife in London, is shown to journalists in Shirva town, some 250 miles from the southern Indian city of Bangalore, on Dec. 8, 2012.
Saldanha lived and worked in London during the week, but traveled to see her family in Bristol on weekends.
Saldanha, 46, was found hanging by a scarf from a wardrobe by a colleague and a member of security staff?at King Edward VII's Hospital on Friday, coroner's officer Lynda Martindill told a formal hearing into the circumstances of her death called an inquest.
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Police detective chief inspector James Harman told the hearing that the married mother-of-two had injuries to her wrists.?
He also said that three handwritten notes were found, two at the scene and one among her belongings.
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