Solaine Thornton, 11, died in the arms of her mother, Rachel, who appears to have carried her to a grassy hollow and tried to shield her, despite being hit in the neck and back.
The devastated family of an 11-year-old British girl, who was gunned down by an angry neighbour, had just received their passports for a trip to the UK to visit relatives.
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Dutch neighbour Dirk Raats, 71, has been formally charged with 11-year-old Solaine Thornton s murder and the attempted murder of her parents Adrian and Rachael in France.
Solaine Thornton, 11, was killed on Saturday after what's believed to have been a dispute between neighbours in the village of Saint-Herbot in Brittany turned deadly