Vic: Lone death notice for Joe Korp

AAP General News (Australia)
08-15-2005
Vic: Lone death notice for Joe Korp

MELBOURNE, Aug 14 AAP - A lone death notice has been posted in Melbourne's daily newspapers
for Joe Korp following his suicide late Friday.

Korp, 47, hanged himself in a shed on the family' property, just hours after his wife
Maria's funeral in suburban Melbourne which he did not attend.

Mrs Korp, 50, was found almost strangled and left for dead in the boot of her car at
Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance on February 13, four days after she disappeared from
her home.

She died alone in hospital on August 5.

A single death notice for Korp appeared in Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper today.

The modest notice from Shane, Kim, Nicole and Dean stated; "Rest in peace Joe. Our
deepest sympathy to the Korp family."

A requiem funeral mass for Korp would be held on Thursday at Our Lady Help of Christians
Catholic Church, in Brunswick East - the church where Mrs Korp was farewelled last week,
according to a funeral notice in Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper.

A rosary would be recited before the mass at noon (AEST) and Korp would be privately
cremated afterwards, the notice stated.

Mourners have been requested not to bring flowers to the funeral, but instead have
been asked to make a donation to a charity.

Joseph Korp's lover Tania Herman was found guilty of attempted murder prior to Maria's
death, and is serving a minimum nine-year jail sentence.

She claims Korp told her to kill Maria.

Earlier this year, guardianship of Mrs Korp was handed to Public Advocate Julian Gardner,
who last month ordered medical staff to cease feeding her through a tube.

But throughout his wife's ordeal, Joseph Korp has claimed his innocence.

He said he did not want to attend his wife's funeral on Friday, because he did not
wish to distress her family by turning it into a media feast.

It was only hours later that he hanged himself.

A coronial inquiry will be held into Korp's death.

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