A man killed his wife and then hanged himself

Mummy and daddy are asleep: Children lead family friend to their father hanging near body of wife 'he had ....while their two sons played in their seaside home.
A family friend found the bodies after entering the flat and being told by one of the boys: ‘Mummy and Daddy are asleep.’
Pat Cannon discovered Barry Harrison hanging from a noose in his children’s bedroom. The body of his wife, Amanda, who is thought to have been strangled, was found in the other bedroom at the flat in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight.

The couple, who were in their 30s, had been having marital problems according to Miss Cannon, whose sister is now looking after the boys, aged three and five.

Miss Cannon raised the alarm just after 6pm on Monday.
She added: ‘I went round because I knew the couple were going through a rough patch with their marriage and I had not heard from them for a day or so, which was unusual. I wanted to make sure they were all right.
‘I knocked on their door and the elder boy opened it to me. Everything seemed normal. The boys were playing in the hallway. He said “Hello Pat”.
‘I said “Where are Mummy and Daddy?” They said “Mummy and Daddy are asleep”.
‘When I realised what had happened, I nearly collapsed from the shock of it.’
The couple had moved to the Isle of Wight from Coventry, where they had met. Both worked in the food industry.
Miss Cannon said: ‘As far as I know, neither of them was seeing anyone else. They were just having marital difficulties.