This one is in England. What is up with people these days?

RE: father gases his 2 young children and then hung himself
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From: Help the missing
Date: Sep 22, 2008 4:36 PM


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From: In Loving Memory
Date: Sep 22, 2008 7:23 AM


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From: Shaken Baby Awareness UK
Date: Sep 22, 2008 7:19 AM


AN anguished mum frantically dialled 999 to report her ex's threat to kill their young daughters — but it was too late.

Cops arrived at the man’s caravan home within minutes last night but found the girls, aged one and three, smothered inside.


Their father, named locally today as David Cass, who had custody of them for the weekend, had called his estranged girlfriend to make his chilling threat, saying: “I can’t live without them.
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He was found hanging nearby at the garage where he had worked and where the caravan was parked.


Mr Cass, 32, had been an employee at Paynes Road Car Sales in Southampton, for the past four years, his boss, John Martin, said.


Mr Martin said Mr Cass had seemed depressed over the last few weeks because of relationship problems with a woman, who lives in the Fair Oak area of Eastleigh, Hampshire.


He told reporters that Mr Cass handed in his notice on Friday, adding: “He said to me he was going away and he had a plan. I said ’Don’t do anything stupid'.
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A source said: “It is an appalling tragedy. They (the children) were suffocated.
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Police sources said the man had phoned the children's mum threatening to kill them before she dialled 999.


Officers launched an immediate search.


The bodies were found at 6.51 last night.


The youngest girl is believed to be called Ellie.


A friend of Mr Cass, Paul Timberlake, said he was stunned about what had happened.


“You would never have thought this of him,” he said. “He was such a nice bloke, he’d do anything for anyone and was very helpful and he absolutely loved his children.


“I saw him two weeks ago and he was fine but I know he was having wife trouble.


“I’ve spoken to my daughter who is friends with the mother and she told me that this was the first weekend he’d been allowed to have them (the children) since the split.


“Everyone is stunned and no-one can believe it.
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The garage, in the Shirley area of Southampton, was sealed off as police and forensics teams examined the scenes.


Horrified George Taylor, 55, who lives just yards from Paynes Road Car Sales, said: “It is just a sad world we live in. It is just terrible.
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A police spokesman said: “Officers attended the car sales garage where they discovered the bodies.


“They are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths and are now tracing and informing next of kin.
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Late last night three bunches of flowers had been left at the garage entrance.


Post mortems are expected to be held today.


The weekend horror was the latest a tragic string of killings of children by their fathers.


Brian Philcox, 52, gassed himself, daughter Amy, seven, and three-year-old son Owen on Father’s Day this year.


In April 2007 Dafydd Field, 52, was found dead in his prison cell days after killing his son Jethro, six.