Englishman jumps to death

JAKARTA (JP): An Englishman jumped to his death from a seventh floor apartment in Kalideres, West Jakarta, on Friday morning.

Thirty-nine-year-old Peter Jackson jumped to his death from a window in the apartment despite the pleas of his wife.

The man's wife, Yossy, 29, said she found her husband standing in front of the window on Friday morning.

"I tried to grab him but he kept kicking and beating me," she said.

She said her husband broke his left leg in a car accident early in December. "He was upset because his office, where he worked as a translator, did not reimburse his hospital bills and fired him."

She said her husband had repeatedly told her he would kill himself since he lost his job last December. (06)