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UPDATE 27th July 2010
All my babies are dead: Grandmother's horror after discovering slaughtered family
By Christian Gysin (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Christian+Gysin) and Katherine Faulkner (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Katherine+Faulkner)
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The hysterical grandmother who found the bodies of her two tiny granddaughters and their parents screamed 'all my babies are dead' as she ran from the house where they died.
Andrew Case yesterday inexplicably 'snapped' and stabbed his family to death in their home in a quiet market town.
The delivery driver's daughters, two-year-old Phoebe and one-year-old Nereya, were fatally knifed just a few minutes after the once devoted father had also killed his nursery teacher wife, Vicky, 31.
The 32-year-old then hanged himself at the couple's rented family home. Just what drove him to destroy his family remained a mystery today.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A9429A2000005DC-52_468x690.jpg Andy Case with his daughters, aged one and two. The girls were found stabbed to death and Mr Case was discovered hanging at a house in a quiet New Forest town
The discovery was made when the children's 56-year-old grandmother, Linda Haskell, went to the family home only to be confronted by horrific scenes.
A near neighbour of the Case family - 53-year-old Alayna Brooks - described how she saw Mrs Haskell running out of the house screaming: 'They are all dead - my babies are dead!'
There were claims he may have had financial problems but one neighbour said they had just returned from a family holiday to Dorset.
But whatever the reason, his crime shocked the town of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, where at least one young neighbour is thought to have heard a child's screams yesterday morning.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/27/article-1297755-0A943859000005DC-737_468x441.jpg One-year-old Nereya Case was murdered after her mother
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/27/article-1297755-0A9439C7000005DC-316_468x499.jpg Two-year-old Phoebe's body was found on a double bed
Moments before the emergency services arrived Mrs Brooks ran into the house and was confronted by the body of Mrs Case in the downstairs dining room.
She said: 'The first thing I thought when I saw the woman dead was "are the babies alive?"
'I went upstairs and the man was hanging. I shook his leg and said: "Just wake up - you've got a family!"
'But it was just not happening. It was the most appalling thing I have ever lived through.
'I was distressed and I saw the two little girls side by side in the double bed.
They were dead. It was horrific --they were a beautiful family. The girls were gorgeous.'
It emerged last night that the young family had just come back from a week- long holiday in Weymouth.
The family home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, was sealed off by police as they investigated the killings
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A944F5B000005DC-214_468x313.jpg A police forensic team remove a Land Rover from the house
'They were so loved up,' added Mrs Brooks. 'I would have loved their marriage - they just loved each other.'
The couple, who married in 2000, have lived at the small property for the past few months after moving from their previous home which was also in Fordingbridge.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A945303000005DC-17_233x386.jpg A child's toy hangs in the window of a car removed by police forensic officers
It was claimed that Mr Case had money worries after recently selling their previous home.
A businessman, Hau Chow, who used to employ Vicky at his Chinese restaurant, said: 'I think maybe they had financial problems because they were renting that house. They had to sell their own house. They were a friendly family and the children were lovely.'
For the past three years he had worked as an HGV delivery driver for the Wiltshire-based company Doccombe European.
It is understood grandmother Mrs Haskell normally cared for the children on Mondays while her daughter Vicky ran St Aldhelm's nursery and pre- school in the town.
Friends described her as 'happy go lucky' and someone who was 'never unhappy'.
Yesterday Mrs Haskell was seen weeping in the street as she made a 999 call pleading for help - but paramedics and police who raced to the scene were unable to save her daughter, grandchildren or son-in-law.
Ambulance crews were last night being offered specialist counselling after witnessing the distressing scenes.
South Central Ambulance Service said: 'The doctor reported back from the scene that one adult female and two children were dead and had been stabbed. One male was found hanging.'
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/27/article-1297755-0A942ECB000005DC-918_468x411.jpg Discovery: The Case family home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire
The house where the bodies were found is set back from a row of cottages which are next to a stream on the edge of the New Forest.
Enlarge http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A93EF2D000005DC-395_233x330.jpg (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A93EF2D000005DC-395_233x330_popup.jpg)
On his Facebook page Mr Case had recently posted details of the family's holiday to Weymouth.
He said: 'Weymouth here we come! We're going where the sun shines brightly, were (sic) going where the sea is blue. seen it in the movies, let's see if it's true.'
He summed up his life in a brief biography: 'I am 32, I got married in 2000 and have been with my wife, Vicki, for about 15 years. We have two beautiful daughters, Phoebe (two years and a half) and Nereya (one).'
Pictures posted on his page at Easter this year show him playing and sharing chocolate eggs with his laughing daughters.
Case was planning to run a marathon in September in aid of new living quarters for the parents of premature babies looked after at Salisbury Hospital.
Case said his favourite quotation was: 'Sucess is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obsticals which he has overcome.'
But other posts on Facebook point to darker preoccupations.
On June 8 he wrote: 'Time is equal to life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life or master your time and master your life... FIN.'
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very sad indeed. RIP little girls
- omolabake21, Leeds, 27/7/2010 09:30
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RIP those that have had thier lives cut terribly short.
The poor Grandmother - I hope she can find it in her heart to forgive her son in law and put some sort of order back in her life..... lets hope it was not her only daughter and grandchildren...
- EMG, Overseas, 27/7/2010 09:28
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Not to excuse what he did but in answer to Why?
Whilst the bankers quaff their champagne, MPs fiddle and many other people enjoy low mortgage rates;
Life for people with manual/unskilled jobs is becoming intolerable in this country.
- Colin Camper, Blackpool, 27/7/2010 09:27
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May they all rest in peace, all four, as there must have been something terrible happening within this closed family unit for a father to feel desperate enough to do this.
Jeans question should read what is wrong with 'society' these days? rather than 'men'. Surely it's a reflection of the pressures we put on everyone to succeed and be wealthy nowaday? These modern expectations along with traditional values of men being the breadwinner, which are still around, combine to put a huge burden on men I'm sure many feel they are not doing well enough. Years ago they would get together in the pub and discuss their lives, hearing others going through similar and exchanging ideas at least made them realise they weren't the only ones how many actually do this now? Our lives are so busy very few people have time to socialise regulary as we used to do, if we could get back to being a less monetary obsessed society maybe some of the pressures would ease.
- Carol, Wilts, 27/7/2010 09:13
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All my babies are dead: Grandmother's horror after discovering slaughtered family
By Christian Gysin (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Christian+Gysin) and Katherine Faulkner (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Katherine+Faulkner)
Last updated at 10:39 AM on 27th July 2010
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The hysterical grandmother who found the bodies of her two tiny granddaughters and their parents screamed 'all my babies are dead' as she ran from the house where they died.
Andrew Case yesterday inexplicably 'snapped' and stabbed his family to death in their home in a quiet market town.
The delivery driver's daughters, two-year-old Phoebe and one-year-old Nereya, were fatally knifed just a few minutes after the once devoted father had also killed his nursery teacher wife, Vicky, 31.
The 32-year-old then hanged himself at the couple's rented family home. Just what drove him to destroy his family remained a mystery today.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A9429A2000005DC-52_468x690.jpg Andy Case with his daughters, aged one and two. The girls were found stabbed to death and Mr Case was discovered hanging at a house in a quiet New Forest town
The discovery was made when the children's 56-year-old grandmother, Linda Haskell, went to the family home only to be confronted by horrific scenes.
A near neighbour of the Case family - 53-year-old Alayna Brooks - described how she saw Mrs Haskell running out of the house screaming: 'They are all dead - my babies are dead!'
There were claims he may have had financial problems but one neighbour said they had just returned from a family holiday to Dorset.
But whatever the reason, his crime shocked the town of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, where at least one young neighbour is thought to have heard a child's screams yesterday morning.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/27/article-1297755-0A943859000005DC-737_468x441.jpg One-year-old Nereya Case was murdered after her mother
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/27/article-1297755-0A9439C7000005DC-316_468x499.jpg Two-year-old Phoebe's body was found on a double bed
Moments before the emergency services arrived Mrs Brooks ran into the house and was confronted by the body of Mrs Case in the downstairs dining room.
She said: 'The first thing I thought when I saw the woman dead was "are the babies alive?"
'I went upstairs and the man was hanging. I shook his leg and said: "Just wake up - you've got a family!"
'But it was just not happening. It was the most appalling thing I have ever lived through.
'I was distressed and I saw the two little girls side by side in the double bed.
They were dead. It was horrific --they were a beautiful family. The girls were gorgeous.'
It emerged last night that the young family had just come back from a week- long holiday in Weymouth.
The family home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, was sealed off by police as they investigated the killings
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A944F5B000005DC-214_468x313.jpg A police forensic team remove a Land Rover from the house
'They were so loved up,' added Mrs Brooks. 'I would have loved their marriage - they just loved each other.'
The couple, who married in 2000, have lived at the small property for the past few months after moving from their previous home which was also in Fordingbridge.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A945303000005DC-17_233x386.jpg A child's toy hangs in the window of a car removed by police forensic officers
It was claimed that Mr Case had money worries after recently selling their previous home.
A businessman, Hau Chow, who used to employ Vicky at his Chinese restaurant, said: 'I think maybe they had financial problems because they were renting that house. They had to sell their own house. They were a friendly family and the children were lovely.'
For the past three years he had worked as an HGV delivery driver for the Wiltshire-based company Doccombe European.
It is understood grandmother Mrs Haskell normally cared for the children on Mondays while her daughter Vicky ran St Aldhelm's nursery and pre- school in the town.
Friends described her as 'happy go lucky' and someone who was 'never unhappy'.
Yesterday Mrs Haskell was seen weeping in the street as she made a 999 call pleading for help - but paramedics and police who raced to the scene were unable to save her daughter, grandchildren or son-in-law.
Ambulance crews were last night being offered specialist counselling after witnessing the distressing scenes.
South Central Ambulance Service said: 'The doctor reported back from the scene that one adult female and two children were dead and had been stabbed. One male was found hanging.'
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/27/article-1297755-0A942ECB000005DC-918_468x411.jpg Discovery: The Case family home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire
The house where the bodies were found is set back from a row of cottages which are next to a stream on the edge of the New Forest.
Enlarge http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A93EF2D000005DC-395_233x330.jpg (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297755-0A93EF2D000005DC-395_233x330_popup.jpg)
On his Facebook page Mr Case had recently posted details of the family's holiday to Weymouth.
He said: 'Weymouth here we come! We're going where the sun shines brightly, were (sic) going where the sea is blue. seen it in the movies, let's see if it's true.'
He summed up his life in a brief biography: 'I am 32, I got married in 2000 and have been with my wife, Vicki, for about 15 years. We have two beautiful daughters, Phoebe (two years and a half) and Nereya (one).'
Pictures posted on his page at Easter this year show him playing and sharing chocolate eggs with his laughing daughters.
Case was planning to run a marathon in September in aid of new living quarters for the parents of premature babies looked after at Salisbury Hospital.
Case said his favourite quotation was: 'Sucess is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obsticals which he has overcome.'
But other posts on Facebook point to darker preoccupations.
On June 8 he wrote: 'Time is equal to life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life or master your time and master your life... FIN.'
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very sad indeed. RIP little girls
- omolabake21, Leeds, 27/7/2010 09:30
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RIP those that have had thier lives cut terribly short.
The poor Grandmother - I hope she can find it in her heart to forgive her son in law and put some sort of order back in her life..... lets hope it was not her only daughter and grandchildren...
- EMG, Overseas, 27/7/2010 09:28
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Not to excuse what he did but in answer to Why?
Whilst the bankers quaff their champagne, MPs fiddle and many other people enjoy low mortgage rates;
Life for people with manual/unskilled jobs is becoming intolerable in this country.
- Colin Camper, Blackpool, 27/7/2010 09:27
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May they all rest in peace, all four, as there must have been something terrible happening within this closed family unit for a father to feel desperate enough to do this.
Jeans question should read what is wrong with 'society' these days? rather than 'men'. Surely it's a reflection of the pressures we put on everyone to succeed and be wealthy nowaday? These modern expectations along with traditional values of men being the breadwinner, which are still around, combine to put a huge burden on men I'm sure many feel they are not doing well enough. Years ago they would get together in the pub and discuss their lives, hearing others going through similar and exchanging ideas at least made them realise they weren't the only ones how many actually do this now? Our lives are so busy very few people have time to socialise regulary as we used to do, if we could get back to being a less monetary obsessed society maybe some of the pressures would ease.
- Carol, Wilts, 27/7/2010 09:13
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