Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Deputy commissioner Nick Kaldas, NSW Police: "We've certainly opened up the lines of communication" 
 
 Scotland Yard has been in touch with Australian police over the death of a nurse from the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for morning sickness. 
 
 Jacintha Saldanha, 46, died on Friday, days after she answered a prank phone call from Australian DJs pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles. 
 
 An inquest into the apparent suicide is due to be opened this week. 
 
 The DJs responsible have been taken off air and are receiving counselling. 
 
 Southern Cross Austereo, owner of 2Day FM, held an emergency board meeting on Sunday, but made no comment afterwards. 
 
 It has suspended all advertising on the station until Monday, while DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian are on indefinite leave. 
 
 The pair are said to be in a fragile condition and receiving "intense counselling", because of the hostile reaction to their prank. 
 
 Meanwhile, the Duke of Cambridge has cancelled his appearance at the British Military Tournament at Earl's Court in London on Sunday. 
 
 A St James's Palace spokesman said he would spend the day "privately with the duchess instead". 
 
 Regarding official contact, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "Officers have been in contact with Australian authorities." 
 
 Analysis Legal experts say that Australian DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian are unlikely to be prosecuted at home or in the UK over the tragic royal hospital prank because they hadn't shown "guilty intent." However, the radio pair may well have violated the Surveillance Devices Act in the state of New South Wales. It prohibits the broadcasting of private conversations acquired using a "listening device". Sanctions could also be imposed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. It is investigating whether 2Day FM breached its licence conditions or industry rules. ACMA could strip the station of its right to broadcast, although that is unlikely. Station bosses continue to stress that no laws were broken and that the pre-recorded spoof interview had been scrutinised and approved by lawyers before it was aired. Any pain the commercial radio network will feel will probably be financial, in the short term at least. Several anxious advertisers have already abandoned 2Day FM in response to a largely hostile reaction from the Australian public. 
 
 In certain circumstances, including when a death is sudden or unexpected, police report deaths to a coroner and can be involved in investigating the circumstances. 
 
 The deputy commissioner for New South Wales Police, Nick Kaldas, said: "They haven't actually asked us to do anything yet, but we've certainly opened up the lines of communication and obviously we're happy to assist in any way we can." 
 
 He added: "All I can say at the moment is that it's been indicated that the London Metropolitan Police may wish to speak to the people involved in the matter from 2Day FM. 
 
 "But we haven't been asked to do anything yet, and we certainly have not been asked to interview anyone, or line up any interviews for the Met." 
 
 Legal experts say that the DJs are unlikely to be prosecuted in Australia or the UK because they had not shown "guilty intent," reported BBC correspondent Phil Mercer in Sydney. 
 
 However, the radio pair may well have violated the Surveillance Devices Act in the state of New South Wales. It prohibits the broadcasting of private conversations acquired using a "listening device". 
 
 Station bosses say no laws were broken and that the pre-recorded spoof interview had been approved by lawyers before it was aired. 
 
 The company board, including chairman Max Moore-Wilton, met on Sunday, but are not expected to release a statement until Monday. 
 
 They discussed the strongly worded letter received from the chairman of King Edward VII's Hospital, where Catherine was being treated for acute morning sickness last week. 
 
 In it, Lord Glenarthur said it was "truly appalling" that the call, in which Mrs Saldanha transfers the caller to the duchess' nurse believing it to be the Queen, was approved by radio management before broadcast. 
 
 Image caption Jacintha Saldanha was married with two children 
 
 Lord Glenarthur also said in his letter: "The immediate consequence of these premeditated and ill-considered actions was the humiliation of two dedicated and caring nurses who were simply doing their job tending to their patients. 
 
 "The longer term consequence has been reported around the world and is, frankly, tragic beyond words." 
 
 He urged Mr Moore-Wilton to ensure such an incident was never repeated. 
 
 A bouquet of flowers was left outside the hospital accommodation where Mrs Saldanha was found on Friday. An attached note said: "We bless your soul." 
 
 While Mrs Saldanha's husband and two children were being comforted at their home in Bristol, her extended family in her native India were coming to terms with her death. 
 
 Her sister-in-law told AFP news agency from south-west India: "We were shocked to hear from her husband that Jacintha was no more. He did not tell us that she committed suicide." 
 
 She added: "Today we are going to the church to pray for her soul and for her children, who are going through a bad time." 
 
 Royal College of Nursing chief executive Peter Carter said the death was "a tragedy that was avoidable". 
 
 "This is the fallout from these hoaxes. We've seen them in the past. Rarely does it have the dramatic effect that it has had on this occasion." ||||| Australian DJs could face prosecution UK prosecutors will decide whether they will charge two DJs at the centre of the royal phone prank scandal. 
 
 SCOTLAND Yard has submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service pertaining to the prank call made by two Australian DJs to the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for morning sickness. 
 
 The action follows the death of Nurse Jacintha Saldanha, 46, who hanged herself three days after she transferred the hoax call from 2Day FM radio presenters, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, to a colleague. 
 
 Mrs Saldanha had believed the radio presenters were the Queen and Prince of Wales and upon transferring the call, her colleague then described the condition of the Duchess in detail. 
 
 
 
 The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will now consider whether any potential offences may have been committed, Scotland Yard said. 
 
 
 
 A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Following the death of Jacintha Saldanha, officers have liaised with the CPS as to whether any criminal offences had been committed in relation to the hoax call made to King Edward VII Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday December 4. 
 
 
 
 "On Wednesday December 19, officers submitted a file to the CPS for them to consider whether any potential offences may have been committed by making the hoax call." 
 
 In England and Wales, the CPS is responsible for deciding whether charges will proceed in criminal cases, while police are responsible for investigating and collecting evidence. 
 
 Prosecutors to consider nurse hoax call Scotland Yard has submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service relating to the royal hoax call. 
 
 At the nurse's funeral in India on Monday, her widower Benedict Barboza and the couple's two teenage children said British police were investigating the tragedy "and they have assured us of a full and fair investigation''. 
 
 In one of three apparent suicide notes, Mrs Saldanha, 46, expressed her anger at the 2Day FM presenters. 
 
 Following the incident, Ms Greig and Mr Christian spoke of their grief on Australian television soon after the nurse's death, saying the prank had prompted "a tragic turn of events no one could have predicted or expected". 
 
 Southern Cross Austereo, the company which owns 2Day FM, said it would be donating almost $500,000 to a memorial fund set up in Mrs Saldanha's name by King Edward VII Hospital. 
 
 The station has cancelled the show which ran the segment. Australia's media watchdog has also opened an investigation into the call. 
 
 The hospital has defended itself, saying it offered support to Saldanha and had stressed to her she would not be disciplined for being taken in by what it described as a "cruel trick''. 
 
 But British MP Keith Vaz, who has been campaigning on the family's behalf, said the hospital had so far failed to fully answer a number of their questions. 
 
 He published letters he sent to its chief executive, John Lofthouse, and to the radio station's owners setting out dozens of detailed queries. 
 
 Relatives "still do not have any confirmation of the facts of exactly what happened", he told Lofthouse, or "written confirmation of the answers'' to previous questions. 
 
 He asked the radio station why there had allegedly been "no attempt to contact the family and offer support in any way''. 
 
 A Palace spokesman said Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, had not made a complaint about the prank call and were "deeply saddened' by the tragedy. 
 
 A statement released by the couple at the time said: "'Their thoughts and prayers are with Jacintha Saldanha’s family, friends and colleagues at this very sad time." 
 
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– Scotland Yard is hoping to take the investigation into the tragic royal prank call Down Under: As the BBC reports, UK police have reached out to their Australian counterparts about investigating the radio DJs who prank-called the hospital where Kate Middleton was being treated for morning sickness. "They haven't actually asked us to do anything yet," says a New South Wales police spokesman, "but we've certainly opened up the lines of communication and obviously we're happy to assist in any way we can." DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian wouldn't be likely targets for prosecution because they showed no "guilty intent," but they could be targeted under Aussie law that prevents public airing of private conversations caught on a "listening device." King Edward VII's Hospital has slammed 2Day FM, calling it "truly appalling" that both management and a station lawyer had approved the prank. Greig and Christian, who were suspended and are said to be undergoing "intense counseling," have "expressed a desire to speak," Sky News reports. "We haven't ascertained when they're ready for that and how we're going to organize that, but they certainly want to," says a spokesman for the radio station's parent company.