ONE of the sons of the Worcestershire couple who fell to their deaths in separate incidents while on holiday says his mother died in a tragic accident after leaning from her third floor window.

The youngster is one of four brothers left orphaned after the deaths of Roger and Mathilde (Tilly) Lamb, of Pensham, near Pershore. The boy was in the apartment when his mother fell.

His comments, which give the first direct account of what may have happened, follows intense media speculation about the exact circumstances of the couple’s deaths – which happened four days apart – in the Moroccan port of Essaouira.

Family members said any rumours of rows leading up to 43-year-old Mrs Lamb’s fall from the window of a rented city apartment on Wednes-day August 17, were “totally untrue” and “deeply hurtful”. Mrs Lamb’s brother-in-law Mark Rogerson, speaking on behalf of the couple’s families, said: “Reports of an argument between Roger and Tilly shortly before her death are utterly and totally untrue – as well as being deeply hurtful to the family.

“There was no argument at all. It was an amicable holiday. They were discussing the possibility of relocating the family to New Zealand.”

Mr Rogerson said one of the couple’s sons had given his version of the events leading up to his mother’s fall from the apartment.

He said: “On the night in question there was a great deal of noise outside. Some-body started knocking on the ground floor door of the building. Tilly leaned out to see who it was and to tell them to leave.

“Because of an awning at first floor level she could not see the door below. She leaned out further and fell.”

It is not known which of the couple’s sons – Angus, aged 16, Montague, 14, Henry, 11, and Felix, nine, gave the account of what happened.

Mrs Lamb died the day after her fall. Mr Lamb, aged 47, died following a separate fall from a second floor hotel balcony the following Sunday night.

Their sons are now back in Britain and being looked after by relatives in Wiltshire, where police in the county are working with their Moroccan counterparts in a bid to establish how the pair died. The Wiltshire coroner has also been informed.

The family lived in an £850,000 home at Pensham and also let a nearby cottage.

Mr Lamb, a geo-technical engineer, had been working in New Zealand and it is believed the family had been considering a move to the country.

The Rev Terry Henderson, rector of Great Comberton, paid tribute to the couple saying their sudden deaths had traumatised people in the area. He said: “They were very much a part of the community through the school. I understand that one of Mrs Lamb’s sisters is looking after the children.”