EXCLUSIVE: This is the first picture of the drug-taking Dutchman accused of blasting 11-year-old Solaine Thornton to death with a rifle as she sat on a swing in her garden in Brittany.
A Dutch pensioner accused of killing an English girl in a shooting after a land dispute has been pictured, after it was revealed that the 11-year-old died cradled in her mother's arms.
Murder accused Dirk Raats, 71, was not likely aiming at 11-year-old British schoolgirl Solaine Thornton when he allegedly shot her dead during a family BBQ, a court has heard
Dirk Raats, 71, who is in custody in Brittany suspected of attempted murder and killing a child under the age of 15, was said to have been high on drugs when he pointed his weapon towards the Thornton family, who were originally from Oldham