An inquest was due to be opened this morning into the murders of a mother and daughter and the suspected suicide of the husband, whose body was found in St Martins.
Hugh McFall is believed to have killed his wife and 18-year old daughter in the early hours of Friday, February 5, before hanging himself at business premises in St Martins.
His body was found in a lock-up he used at Bank Top Industrial Estate for his flower business just hours after the bodies of his 56-year-old wife Sue and his daughter Francesca were discovered by police at the family home in Hampton Road, Oswestry.
Police immediately launched a murder inquiry, believing Mr McFall had killed himself after killing his wife and daughter.
Mr McFall, 48, ran a floral business called Growing Places and moved into new premises at the turn of the year by leasing a unit at St Martins Business Park.
Sources at the park said they believed he had been struggling financially, but Ben Lloyd, who works at a car repair workshop next to Mr McFall’s premises, said he was surprised by the suggestion. He said: “He was just normal the last time I saw him. He seemed fine and never mentioned anything about money.”
Mrs McFall worked at the HSBC, formerly the Midlands Bank, in Llanrhaeadr. Francesca, known by friends as Frankie, was a student at Oswestry School. Fellow pupil Ffion Lloyd, 17, said she had been left “completely shocked” by the death of her friend, whom she had known all her life.
By Pam Griffin
