Duchess of Cambridge hoax DJ ‘had bullets in post’

A RADIO DJ who took part in a hoax call after which a nurse killed herself has told of her own fears after receiving death threats and bullets in the post.

Radio DJ Mel Greig says she was stalked after her prank call. Picture: Contributed

Mel Greig said: “I was in lockdown for months. There were bullets with our name on it sent to police stations.” She also revealed that someone rang her mother and said “eye for an eye, you deserve to die”.

Jacintha Saldanha died in 2012, after the hoax call to a London hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge.

Ms Greig and colleague Michael Christian were working for Sydney-based radio station 2Day FM when they made their prank call to King Edward VII’s Hospital in December 2012.

They pretended to be the Queen and Prince Charles asking about the duchess’s treatment for severe morning sickness, during her first pregnancy. Mrs Saldanha, 46, answered the call and transferred it to a colleague, who gave details of the duchess’s condition.

Mrs Saldanha was found hanged three days later.

At Mrs Saldanha’s inquest last month, Ms Greig apologised to the nurse’s family and the other nurse, saying: “This tragedy is always going to stay with me as a constant reminder.”

Last night she told how she had been targeted after the publicity surrounding the incident. “I don’t want to go ‘poor me, it was terrible’. [The Saldanha family] have lost a wife and a mother, but the trolling and the death threats were disgusting.”

She said she had been stalked and harassed for about 18 months. “That won’t stop until I take my own life, which is not going to happen,” Ms Greig added.