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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2008 14:11:33 GMT
I have only just heard about the whole 'missing Foster family story'
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/28/4?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews)
and I cannot help but wonder when it was that reality became more like action films?
Isn't this all just a bit too scary and surreal? What do you guys all think?
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Post by conbott on Aug 28, 2008 17:08:43 GMT
I can't get the link to work.  |
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Post by arwen on Aug 28, 2008 18:08:27 GMT
I can't get the link to work. Copy and paste it without the parenthesis. |
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Post by arwen on Aug 28, 2008 18:11:22 GMT
I have only just heard about the whole 'missing Foster family story' (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/28/4?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews) and I cannot help but wonder when it was that reality became more like action films? Isn't this all just a bit too scary and surreal? What do you guys all think? It sounds to me like they have fled with as much money as they could and set fire to the house on purpose. |
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Post by PILLSBURY on Aug 28, 2008 21:00:58 GMT
I doubt it Arwen, the whole story sounds like they were murdered and the fire was to hide the evidence.The killers even blocked the entrance with a burning horsebox(with a horse inside). He also was allegedly a very shady character with lots of dodgy dealings.
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Post by arwen on Aug 28, 2008 21:28:32 GMT
I doubt it Arwen, the whole story sounds like they were murdered and the fire was to hide the evidence.The killers even blocked the entrance with a burning horsebox(with a horse inside). He also was allegedly a very shady character with lots of dodgy dealings. The reason I think so, is because all the pets and horses were shot before the fire, and from what I read about his history - trying to pull money out of the company - sounds like preparing for a run to me. from www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4621978.ece"The company imploded in a series of protracted legal wrangles that culminated in the Court of Appeal branding him “bereft of the basic instincts of commercial morality”. Although Mr Foster is believed to have made millions from Ulva, by last year the company was running into serious financial trouble. After losing a court case it owed almost £1 million to a supplier, DRC Distribution, as well as more than £800,000 to the taxman. Mr Foster was under threat of prosecution for “irregularities”. Fearing ruin, Mr Foster then began transferring assets out of his business, of which his wife was company secretary, in what Lord Justice Rimer described as “an asset-stripping exercise directed at enabling him to carry on its business through another company with a similar name”. In October 2006 Mr Foster had been dragged into a seedy court case after accusing two men of trying to blackmail him for £100,000 when a land deal in Cyprus fell through. The men were cleared at Shrewsbury Crown Court of making an unwarranted demand with menaces, but one was convicted of intent to pervert the course of justice and given a suspended prison sentence. Mr Foster retreated to his country backwater, turning the house into a “fortress” with gates and CCTV." I may of course be wrong! I was the only one in another forum who believed the story about John Edwards and his mistress, too... But I'm an old cynic.  |
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Post by PILLSBURY on Aug 29, 2008 12:36:01 GMT
I disagree but have no facts to back it up, we shall just have to wait and see I guess.
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Post by arwen on Aug 30, 2008 14:20:20 GMT
I disagree but have no facts to back it up, we shall just have to wait and see I guess. I read today that they have found the remains of two people in the house... not identified yet. I hope it's not the mother and daughter...  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2008 15:36:10 GMT
I just read about this on yahoo. I don't like to jump to conclusions, but it's looking likely to be them. However what I don't get is why whoever it was that killed them shot the horses and dogs? What's that all about?
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Post by arwen on Aug 30, 2008 16:11:40 GMT
I just read about this on yahoo. I don't like to jump to conclusions, but it's looking likely to be them. However what I don't get is why whoever it was that killed them shot the horses and dogs? What's that all about? That was part of why I thought/think that the guy himself is behind it. It looked like a setup - trying to make it look like an attack where everything was burned, but that he shot the animals so they wouldn't suffer. It looked staged to me. And it wouldn't be the first time that someone faked their own death to move abroad with a hidden fortune. |
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Post by arwen on Sept 2, 2008 20:06:24 GMT
Latest update I'm reading is that they have found a total of three people in the house - two of them identified as Christopher and Jill Foster, and they think the third one is the daughter. Video footage shows a man that they think is Christopher Foster shooting a rifle and blocking the driveway with a horse trailer. They seem to think that he shot his family and the animals, then set fire to everything and finally shot himself.  |
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Post by oh2bhappy on Sept 4, 2008 11:03:11 GMT
This is all so sad. I don't understand the need in him to destroy everything - whatever to himself, but not his daughter and wife.
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