Mansion fire: wife has been found..?

Question

i think christopher foster killed his family before setting alight to the house, but can you understand why he would do this? Why did he shoot all the animals?

Its so unclear, just wondered what ur views are...

Answer 1

god knows what was going through this mans mind at the time, it obviously all got too much for him and didnt want the animals to be a burden on anyone else, but what gets me is, ok, if you want out and want to kill yourself, why kill everyone else too? they are saying that the other body is a man but dont know the cause of death yet and they havnt found his daughter yet

Answer 2

Today they have said they have found the body of a man and a woman.

The woman had been shot in the head, and there was a gun lying near the boy of the man.   No mention so far of the daughter,

Debt.  Guilt.  But not sure it is him actually.

Answer 3

they had £1.8m debt, and the pets would of been taken by the creditors, so he shot them then killed his family,

no doubt it will come to lite in the next few months and weeks

Answer 4

The more I hear about this the more confusing and perplexing it becomes. Perhaps the daughter's body is buried so deep under rubble since it's a three storey building that's gonna be a ton of rubble including the caved in roof and basement, so perhaps she's still in there somewhere.

I was so sure the bodies found would be the daughter and mother until today.

I don't think he came home and found another man there because they were all at the barbeque together, they all left together to go home together...

I think the body will be that of Christopher Foster and this is perhaps an outside job afterall...

Answer 5

This is a guess as is everybody else's.

The second male body isn't him. They have ID on the wife from her teeth, so they have had enough time to ID the male corpse, unless it isn't him and why name one body before the other.

The horse box blocking the drive - that's not going to stop a fire engine. The dead animals and the used and more importantly unused cartridge cases littering the out buildings.

I think somebody else shot the animals and there was a gunfight. At this moment in time I'm presuming Mr Foster won and the corpse is that somebody else. The daughter hasn't been found dead or alive either, so the story is still open.

Hollywood will be monitoring the situation, this is movie material.

Answer 6

Shooting the animals has baffled me too? He may have been that bitter he was leaving nothing for anyone?? The whole thing is very harrowing to say the least!!!

Answer 7

The animals were either shot to prevent them suffering a rather nasty slow burning to death type situation or to prevent them raising the alarm before the fire really took hold.

Until the bodies have been identified it is all supposition really, but the Independent did have a good article on this today.

Answer 8

The news said that the company he owned went into liquidation, and that he couldn't sell his house without permission. So I think he did it to get out of having to make the payments.

But why he would shoot the animals? Easy, to make it look like somebody else had targeted him.

Answer 9

Husband came home, found wife had been unfaithful, shot both of them, and in a fit of rage, destroyed the things that she most treasured, then took off with the daughter.