The moment the doorbell rang, Claire Throssell knew the worst had happened. Hands trembling as she opened the door, she saw a police officer on the doorstep. Frozen to the spot, she begged him, ‘What has he done?’ The look in the policeman’s eyes confirmed her worst fears.
Claire’s abusive ex-husband, whom she had finally plucked up the courage to leave six months earlier, had done exactly what she had warned the family court he would do if given unsupervised access to their sons. He had taken their lives, and his own, to get back at her for leaving him.
Having lured their sons Jack, 12, and Paul, nine, into the loft to play with a train set he’d bought that day,
