“I believe I was not an evil man, until the balance of my mind was disturbed by the fact there is a patch of Japanese Knotweed which has been growing over our boundary fence on the Rowley Regis Golf Course.”
A Black Country man bludgeoned his wife to death before killing himself over fears their home was blighted by Japanese Knotweed, an inquest heard.
Lab technician Kenneth McRae, 52, battered partner Jane, 55, with a bottle of perfume as she lay in their bed, causing fatal head injuries, at their Rowley Regis home.
In a chilling suicide note, he said he killed his wife because the balance of his mind had been ‘disturbed’ by knotweed at their Bryan Budd Close home.
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Man killed his wife and himself after being 'driven mad' by Japanese knotweed - Birmingham Mail
A Black Country man bludgeoned his wife to death before killing himself over fears their home was blighted by Japanese Knotweed, an inquest heard.
Lab technician Kenneth McRae, 52, battered partner Jane, 55, with a bottle of perfume as she lay in their bed, causing fatal head injuries, at their Rowley Regis home.
In a chilling suicide note, he said he killed his wife because the balance of his mind had been ‘disturbed’ by knotweed at their Bryan Budd Close home.
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Man killed his wife and himself after being 'driven mad' by Japanese knotweed - Birmingham Mail
