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Down Hall Country House Hotel: Widow of man found drowned with lover in hotel pool "in bits" 1 May 2013 17:36 Gurpreet Kpakiwa is struggling to come to terms with the death of husband Komba, who was found drowned with girlfriend Josephine Foday on Saturday Drowned: Komba Kpakiwa and girlfriend Josephine Foday Drowned: Komba Kpakiwa and girlfriend Josephine Foday The widow of a man found drowned with his girlfriend in a luxury hotel's swimming pool is "in bits" over his sudden death, it was reported. Komba Kpakiwa, 31, and lover Josephine Foday, 22, were both found floating face down in the pool at Down Hall Country House Hotel, in Essex, on Saturday evening. Student nurse Josephine had celebrated her birthday a day earlier and her married boyfriend had surprised her with a weekend away, her relatives said. An inquest yesterday heard the pair were seen getting into the pool together and were spotted floating 15 minutes later by a hotel guest, who raised the alarm. Police said a provisional postmortem found their deaths were consistent with drowning and are not being treated as suspicious. Father-of-two Komba's wife, Gurpreet, is said to be in shock and unable to cope with his mysterious death. Gurpreet Kpakiwa Shock: Wife Gurpreet is "in bits" over husband Komba's death A family friend told the Evening Standard: "She is in bits and struggling to work out what happened to Komba on Saturday. "Shes in a bad way and is hardly talking to anyone. Were all desperate for answers." It is understood Josephine, from Plumstead in south east London, met Komba at her local Co-Op supermarket in Erith, Kent, where he was a manager. He and wife Gurpreet are believed to have a seven-year-old son and four-year-old daughter. Komba's brother Sahr claimed Josephine was a family friend and that his brother "looked after his family and supported them". He told the Standard: "What I know about my brother is that he was a nice and loyal man and he was respectful of his family and always proud of them. We have a close, but large, family. We are all distraught. We are there to support his wife." He said his mother was flying over from her family home in Sierra Leone. Josephine was also from Sierra Leone but was left orphaned by the civil war and fled with her grandmother in 2001. Gran Theresa Farma, 61, said: "She told me that her boyfriend was going to take her to celebrate her birthday. She was excited to go. "Everyone is upset, distraught. I cant believe she has gone." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/down-hall-country-house-hotel-1864144