British expat falls to death in Caribbean A lawyer from Lancashire, she had given up her job as managing director of the UK branch of tax advisors Alvarez & Marsal to relocate to the Caribbean island in 2010, where she set up her own consultancy firm. In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, her mother, Christine Pickering, said that the event was a "terrible accident" and that her daughter would be buried on the island. She will be buried in St Lucia, where her heart is. A spokesman for the Foreign Office confirmed the death and said that assistance was being offered to Mrs Thomas's family.