An elderly couple found dead in their garden next to an electric lawnmower were not electrocuted, police have revealed.
South Wales Police, issuing a statement to quash the rumour, said post mortem examinations on Albert and Beatrice Banks - better known as Monty and Margaret - showed they died of natural causes.
It is believed the couple, who were both 87 and had been married for 66 years, had been there since the previous evening. A lawnmower alongside them was still switched on.
The couple's daughter, Sally Smedley, had already said she did not believe they were electrocuted.
Instead, Mrs Smedley said she thought her mother died from the shock of seeing her father dead.
She said: "Anyone involved in the scene is saying it looks as if his heart gave out because he shouldn't have been doing the lawn at his age, but that was what he was like.
"Mum was there and she was found dead on top of him with her left hand on his heart and we think the shock killed her as well."
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