A quantity surveyor stabbed his wife and daughter to death before setting himself and their house on fire at the height of the first coronavirus lockdown, an inquest has heard, with the reason remaining a mystery. Gary Walker, 57, killed 50-year-old Caroline Walker and 24-year-old Katie Walker at the family home in Stuarts Close in Hemel Hempstead on March 29 last year. Housewife Mrs Walker, who had previously been a supervisor at Waitrose but had not worked for the last five years, suffered 39 stab wounds and kennel assistant Miss Walker 38. Both had defensive injuries to their arms. Detective Constable Jason Rice, of the Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Major Crime Unit, told Thursday’s hearing in Hatfield that, after the attacks, Mr Walker fetched two bottles of a highly flammable fluid from a garden shed.
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Gary Walker, 57, stabbed his wife Caroline, 50, and daughter Katie, 24, to death
The quantity surveyor then set himself on fire on March 29, 2020, at their home
Emergency services called to the Hemel Hempstead home after smoke was seen
GP notes read at an inquest today showed Mr Walker had a history of anxiety
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Steve Horsley
Photo by Ron Casteel
Pictured is a picture of the Ramp Ministry. A group participating in the Ramp Ministry built ramps from a convenient door in a house to the ground at a home in Warren.
In Russell Akeley Life I usually write about some aspect of the previous history of Russell and Akeley.
In today’s column I’ll go a little farther afield into New York state and a larger area of northwestern Pennsylvania. First, let me ask you what you would do if you had a temporary or permanent disability and were not able to negotiate steps into and out of your house? There are many people in our area who have this disability.