Daily Mail
September 24, 2014
A distraught mother told last night how she watched in horror as her estranged husband shot their seven-year-old daughter dead.
Lyndsey Shipstone, 42, spoke for the first time about her terror as Egyptian-born Yasser Alromisse carried out the cold-blooded killing as revenge for her turning her back on Islam.
Alromisse, 46, shot their daughter Mary in the head on the doorstep of her home as she returned from primary school on September 11.
‘It was just an ordinary day. Mary had come home from school. She was holding her violin,’ Miss Shipstone said. ‘We walked to the house. There was nothing extraordinary. We’d just picked up one of the local cats that waited for her.
‘It waited for her every day when she came home from school. We were holding her and just walking down the path and were going to give her some food, like we did every day. As soon as I put the front door key in there was a terrible bang behind me. I turned round – and Mary was on the ground.’
Alromisse shot the girl again before fleeing to his car.
‘I saw her father with the gun in his hand pointing at Mary’s head and he fired a second time, and then he retreated into the car and I just dropped down to Mary and dragged her round the front of the house away from the car,’ Miss Shipstone said.
‘I was screaming for help and I was telling neighbours who were calling the police that he had a gun and Mary had been shot. I realised I had to get her away.’