Officers fear for Claire's safety
A FORMER Caistor schoolgirl was placed under police protection after her husband murdered her mother before jumping to his own death.
Former Caistor Grammar School pupil Claire Tootill, (nee Mercante), 31, is said to be in a state of shock following the incident which happened in Huddersfield at the home of her mother Carol Berry.
Mrs Berry, 66, was stabbed to death in what police have described as a "targeted" and "domestic related" attack by Miss Tootill's Argentinian husband Sebastian Mercante, 40.
He had flown to Britain from their Tenerife home to "execute" Miss Tootill, after she fled back to the UK and requested a divorce.
Claire attended Caistor Grammar School from 1991-1997, and has been described by a school friend as being "a lovely girl."
Read more in today's Grimsby Telegraph.
7 Comments
by gp, North Humberside
Thursday, March 11 2010, 5:02AM
“There is nothing in this article to suggest the officers fear for Claire's safety at all yet the headline is worrying for those who know her as I happen to. She is a lovely girl and I can't possibly imagine what she is going through right now. I hope her new partner will give her the happiness she deserves. As an aside I would suggest the management take greater care in who they emply as journalists in future because it doesn' take a rocket scientist to realise that if her husband was called Mercante then Claire Tootill, (nee Mercante) is obviously wrong.”
by gaz, hull
Thursday, March 11 2010, 1:53AM
“Can't get over this I had a brief relationship with her at college, lovely girl. Got back in touch through facebook.”
by Alf Garnet, gy
Tuesday, March 09 2010, 10:22PM
“Is it me or what, for the amount of foriegners who step foot on OUR soil a very high percentage of serious crime is commited by them...feel sorry for this young lady and her family though a real tradgedy RIP”
by Phredd Bloggs, Lincolnshire
Tuesday, March 09 2010, 5:22PM
“This guy could have a brother or cousin scullig around seeking revenge for the death of the girl's husband. I suspect that is why she is under protection.”
by Norty John, Down Dock in Kabul
Tuesday, March 09 2010, 3:55PM
“Why does the Telegraph insist on this kind of gutter journalism?And seeing as the person who murdered her mother is also dead,whom does this girl need protection from??”
by Arthur, Pondering
Tuesday, March 09 2010, 8:47AM
“I know it's been said already, but how desperate must the Telegraph be to think this is news?”
by nellyboy, grimsby
Tuesday, March 09 2010, 7:18AM
“I don't get it. If her husband has committed suicide then from whom does she require protection from. Am I missing something ?”