Family of Epsom College killer reveal their horror

‘He must have been in a state of madness’: Devastated family of Epsom College killer reveal their horror after he fatally shot his wife and daughter

• George Pattison killed Emma, 45, and their seven-year-old daughter Lettie
• The pair were found dead with shotgun wounds at home at school last weekend
• Read: Husband was ‘desperate to do more with his days’ after business failed

The devastated family of Epsom College killer George Pattison have spoken for the first time to voice their horror, after he shot his wife and young daughter before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide.

The accountant shot head teacher Emma Pattison, 45, and their seven-year-old daughter Lettie with his shotgun at their home at the school last weekend.

Pattison’s uncle Frederick Cameron, 83, told The Mail on Sunday that the tragedy had come as a ‘huge shock’ to the Jamaica-born killer’s family. He said: ‘He didn’t strike me as anyone who would do anything of that nature.

‘He must have been in a state of madness… It doesn’t make any sense to me.’

Mr Cameron, who lives in Kingston, Jamaica, said he had attended the couple’s wedding on the island in 2011. But his memories of the happy occasion were shattered when he received a call from his daughter Suzette – Pattison’s cousin – informing him of the killings. 

He said: ‘From what Suzette said it seems like there were problems [in the marriage]… But that doesn’t mean you shoot people.’

The devastated family of Epsom College killer George Pattison have spoken for the first time to voice their horror

George Pattison shot head teacher Emma Pattison, 45, and their seven-year-old daughter Lettie (pictured) with his shotgun at their home at the school last weekend

The shocking crime has left friends and family members wondering whether Emma’s new job at the £42,000-a-year school had caused a rift with her husband. She had previously hinted that the move may have placed a strain on their marriage due to the need to relocate.

In an online chat with a friend last year, she wrote: ‘I have a new job and will have to live on campus as it’s a boarding school! We are trying to sort the house out now… bit of a nightmare.’

The couple had to sell their £1 million family home in Caterham, Surrey, and lived apart as they waited for the sale to complete. It is understood that Pattison moved into the grace-and-favour home at the school only three weeks before the murder-suicide.

A neighbour suggested that Pattison was ‘jealous’ of his wife’s success after he had failed to launch a wine import business.

Pattison described himself online as ‘a career accountant desperate to do something better’. But his wine venture failed to take off. The couple reportedly hosted a dinner party hours before Emma made a distressed call to her sister. Relatives rushed to the scene but all three were dead when they arrived.

It is understood that Pattison moved into the grace-and-favour home at the school only three weeks before the murder-suicide. Pictured: Epsom College

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