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It hasn’t been confirmed that the third body found at Osbaston House, Shropshire is that of Kirstie Foster, 15, although, I agree, that would appear to be the natural assumption. Neither do we know, even if it is her, how she died or at the hands of whom. Nothing at all is certain, but the information we do have, does seem to point to someone shooting the dogs, horses and Mrs Foster, barricading the house from the inside and setting the fires in several places and, all of that does suggest Christopher Foster as the culprit.
It’s by no means proven. I’ll leave that to the police. However …
My mother (the woman who takes unreal to alarming new depths) has rushed to assume that all of the above is fact, merely because that is what the media is feeding her, of course. She is, however, clearly incapable of thinking the whole thing through, as she thinks that the father shooting the daughter is perfectly OK, because "at least he did not leave her to be maimed for life."
Hello, excuse me! By her own assumptive reckonings, it follows - though she can’t / refuses see it - that the daughter would have been in no danger of death or maiming whatsoever until the father did those things.
Up until that point, the worst "threat" the poor girl appeared to be facing (apart from having an arsehole with no conscience for a parent, maybe) was that the family might become homeless and destitute.
Well, many of us have survived worse, hell as it may be.
What we know about Kirstie is that she was on the internet at 1 a.m., seemingly going about the normal life of a 15 year old. She was a healthy teenager who rode horses and, as far as I can tell, was not "maimed", sick or disabled either, not that those are valid reasons for killing someone.
(Just in case you were wondering, I do not believe that there are any circumstances at all when killing another human being is justified.)
And just because her dad was in debt, was certainly no reason to kill his own daughter. If he wanted to commit suicide, then that’s his problem, but there is no way anyone sane would call this "justifiable homicide." Surely?
You can make up your own excuses for my mother. I’ve tried hard to make allowances for her age, or her lack of education, etc., but none of it washes: I do not think that anyone can hold such an opinion unless they are grossly and willfully ignorant, combined with some sick, nasty, cruel and sadistic tendencies ("enhanced" by old age, but were there all along.) And I just cannot put into words the deep repulsion I feel for someone who can think this.
Sponzurz
