BRIT GIRL, 11, KILLED BY RECLUSE AS HER SISTER SCREAMED
Daily Record|June 13, 2023
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ADAM ASPINALL
BRIT GIRL, 11, KILLED BY RECLUSE AS HER SISTER SCREAMED

THE recluse who allegedly shot dead a British girl outside her French home had been locked in a land dispute with her family.

Solaine Thornton, 11, was killed by a shot to the heart late on Saturday.

Her sister Celeste, eight, was unhurt but fled screaming: "My sister is dead".

Their parents Adrian, 52 and Rachel, 49, were seriously injured.

Police say they arrested neighbour, Dutchman Dirk Raats, 71, after a brief siege in the hamlet of Saint-Herbot, north of Quimper, Brittany.

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