Man kills daughters before hanging self
LONDON: A man believed to have killed his two young daughters before committing suicide phoned their mother to say “the children have gone to sleep forever,” a family friend said.
Mechanic David Cass, 33, is thought to have smothered three-year-old Ellie and 14-month-old Isobel on Sunday night in a caravan parked where he worked in Southampton.
He then went inside Paynes Road Car Sales garage area and hanged himself.
Family friend Val Frasier said the children’s mother, Kerry Hughes, had called police after receiving the call from her former boyfriend.
Cass was caring for the youngsters for the first time after an acrimonious split with Hughes about four months ago. He had picked them up on Saturday morning.
“She had a phone call from her husband (sic). He apparently said to her ‘the children have gone to sleep forever and I’m going to hang myself’,” Val Frasier said.
Hughes’s best friend Emma Timberlake said Cass told his ex-girlfriend he would kill himself on Friday.
Police raced to the garage at about 6.50pm and forced open the gates to get inside but the three were already dead.
A Hampshire police spokesman said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
Cass, 32, had worked at the garage for four years, according to his boss John Martin, but resigned on Friday.
Martin said Cass had seemed depressed over the last few weeks because of relationship problems with his girlfriend, who lives in the Fair Oak area of Eastleigh, Hampshire. -Agencies
Man kills daughters before hanging self
LONDON: A man believed to have killed his two young daughters before committing suicide phoned their mother to say “the children have gone to sleep forever,” a family friend said.
Mechanic David Cass, 33, is thought to have smothered three-year-old Ellie and 14-month-old Isobel on Sunday night in a caravan parked where he worked in Southampton.
He then went inside Paynes Road Car Sales garage area and hanged himself.
Family friend Val Frasier said the children’s mother, Kerry Hughes, had called police after receiving the call from her former boyfriend.
Cass was caring for the youngsters for the first time after an acrimonious split with Hughes about four months ago. He had picked them up on Saturday morning.
“She had a phone call from her husband (sic). He apparently said to her ‘the children have gone to sleep forever and I’m going to hang myself’,” Val Frasier said.
Hughes’s best friend Emma Timberlake said Cass told his ex-girlfriend he would kill himself on Friday.
Police raced to the garage at about 6.50pm and forced open the gates to get inside but the three were already dead.
A Hampshire police spokesman said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
Cass, 32, had worked at the garage for four years, according to his boss John Martin, but resigned on Friday.
Martin said Cass had seemed depressed over the last few weeks because of relationship problems with his girlfriend, who lives in the Fair Oak area of Eastleigh, Hampshire. -Agencies
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