Fired cop killed wife and daughter

A former police inspector strangled his wife and six-year-old daughter before stabbing himself with a kitchen knife a week after he was dismissed from his force for misconduct, an inquest has heard.

Toby Day, 37, punched wife Samantha, 38, in the face before strangling her and stabbing her in the chest and stomach at their home in Melton Mowbray last December.

He then strangled and stabbed their six-year-old daughter Genevieve before turning the knife on himself at the semi-detached house, the inquest in Loughborough heard.

Recording a verdict of unlawful killing for Samantha and Genevieve and one of dying at his own hands for Mr Day, the coroner for Rutland and North Leicestershire Trevor Kirkman said: "No one here or in the wider community could fail to have been touched by these tragic incidents."