Loving husband shot terminally ill wife then himself in 'pact to die together'

Inquest told John Knott at ‘end of his tether’ after struggling with wife Anne’s illness and plans for a travellers’ site 300m from their home

A retired company director who was devoted to his seriously ill wife shot her dead and killed himself after they apparently made “a pact to die together”, an inquest has heard.

John Knott, 71, killed his wife Anne, 70, who had Alzheimer’s disease, before turning his shotgun on himself at the couple’s idyllic 300-year-old cottage in Herefordshire.

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