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Daily Mail
August 15, 2014
A retired managing director who feared his home would be surrounded by travellers’ camps is thought to have shot dead his seriously ill wife before turning the gun on himself.
John Knott, 71, and his wife Elizabeth were found dead at their 300-year-old country house following a battle to stop a new site being built on their doorstep.
He is said to have feared being hemmed in if council planners approved the camp in a field next to their £500,000 property – which already had travellers living nearby.
Mr Knott also faced the strain of caring for his 70-year-old wife, whose health was believed to be fading as she battled Alzheimer’s Disease.
Neighbours said yesterday that these problems may have tipped him over the edge, causing him to shoot his wife of 37 years and then himself.
Police confirmed a shotgun registered to him was recovered from the house at Pow Green, a hamlet outside Ledbury in Herefordshire. Officers are investigating whether the deaths were the result of a murder-suicide or a suicide pact, but said nobody else was involved.
The couple were described as pillars of the community, who moved to the area from Worcestershire following Mr Knott’s retirement in 2006.
Mr Knott, a former church warden, was said to be under ‘a lot of stress’ while fighting a planning application for the travellers’ camp in a field next to their house.
Six weeks ago, he wrote a letter, published on Herefordshire County Council’s website, objecting to plans to convert the field into a one-family site featuring a toilet block and septic tank.
‘He always used to come in and give us a nice order and he used to come in all happy and ask how our son is. I could only say good things about him.’
A neighbour added that the couple were ‘very chatty and friendly’ when they moved to the area.
He added: ‘Mr Knott had worked in the building trade but his wife was pretty poorly.
‘Apparently she was fading. He was very concerned about having a camp next door at the same time as caring for his wife.
‘The last time I saw him, he said he was under a lot of stress. He said he was worried about the possible impact the traveller camp would have on them because they have to drive past their house to get there.’
