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...Osbaston property belonged to a local millionaire businessman, Christopher Foster, 50, who lived with his wife Jill, 49, and their 15-year-old daughter Kirstie. On Sunday night, police announced that dental records identified one of the bodies as Jill Foster and confirmed that she had been shot in the head before being consumed by the flames. The two other bodies have not been identified but British press reports suggest that police believe they belong to Christopher and his daughter Kirstie...
...Reports in the British press suggest that police are focusing on the possibility of a murder-suicide, as tests are being carried out to establish whether a rifle, which was legitimately owned by Foster, was the murder weapon. The rifle was found near the body of Jill Foster...
...Foster was threatened by financial ruin at the time of the crime. He faced the compulsory liquidation of his company, Ulva Limited, which supplies insulation technology to oil rigs, and had been hit with large bills from creditors and tax authorities. He had also recently been forbidden to sell his home without permission of the liquidator. The Guardian newspaper reported that earlier this year that a High Court judge branded Foster "bereft of the basic instincts of commercial morality" after discovering that he had been stripping Ulva of assets and transferring them to a new firm...
...Sunday Telegraph raised the possibility that Foster's debts might also have made him an assassination target for shady business associates. It reported that last year Foster was involved in a court case in which he accused two men of blackmail after a land deal in Cyprus fell through. The defendants accused Foster of making up the allegation to cover up an attempt to have the pair assaulted...
...Foster was facing ruin, he appears to have retained to the end a veneer of decorum befitting an English gentleman. In interviews with the Telegraph and other papers, his neighbors were shocked to learn that Foster was in financial trouble at all. They described a genial man besotted with his family and his daughter, Kirstie, whose smiling picture has run across front pages alongside images of the charred ruins of her house. Friends have remembered her as a vibrant girl who loved her three horses, Scrumpy Jack, Breezy and Bramble, all now dead...