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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234242/Florist-drowned-disabled-daughter-bath-accident-throwing-girl-lake-inquest-told.html

Mother in lake plunge with disabled daughter had already killed her little girl by accident

By Luke Salkeld
Last updated at 12:35 AM on 09th December 2009   

A florist is thought to have accidentally drowned her disabled daughter in a bath before throwing the girl and herself into a lake.

The bodies of Jude Richmond and her nine-year-old daughter Millie, who suffered from cerebral palsy, were found in the water next to their home, an inquest heard yesterday.

Mrs Richmond, whose customers included the Queen Mother, had suffered a mental breakdown and become obsessed with Scientology.

This appears to be an update on this story related to a recent inquest.

The inquest heard that she 'probably' drowned her daughter while administering a massage treatment in the bath at their £550,000 home in South Cerney, Gloucestershire.

It is thought she then carried her body into a lake at the rear of their home, and jumped in.

It took police divers two days to find them after the family cleaner reported them missing.

The inquest heard that Mrs Richmond had recently returned from New Zealand with Millie after moving there with her stockbroker husband, who was Millie's stepfather.

The relationship had broken down.

She displayed 'classic signs of bipolar disorder', including dramatic mood swings, erratic behaviour and obsessive tendencies, and became convinced doctors had wrongly diagnosed Millie with cerebral palsy and that her condition was actually caused by an allergy to metal.

More at linky. So very sad...

[Lorelei]

Didn't this happen 9 months to a year or so ago?

* Lorelei checks

It happened in mid-March of this year:
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2332940/Two-mystery-men-a-flurry-of-bizarre-texts-hours-before-drownings-the-riddle-of-Jude-and-disabled-Millie.html (pix, and more details about the alleged two mystery men seen w/ Jude shortly before the deaths)

http://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/jude-and-millie-whitehead-richmond/ (Moonbattery: it was a contract killer O NOEZ)

http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=cult-probe-on-tragic-mum-jude&method=full&objectid=21217854&siteid=93463-name_page.html (Scientology accused of telling Hude that Millie did not have a real physical problem and that their quackery could "help")

http://cosmedia.freewinds.cx/media/uk2009.html (places story on a Sci-related news timeline, offers no new info)

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23355 (scroll down)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5932351.ece

I've tried editing several times and several ways to make all the hyperlinks work. Sorry, you'll have to cut and paste.

Mod edit: Links had [ color=black ] tags but still worked; removed the color tags. (The "A" button above the editor window will toggle the edit mode and show the tags.)

[ethercat]

Thanks for posting about the inquest, Free, and thanks Lorelei for posting additional background info.

I hadn't heard about this.  There are too many deaths surrounding scientology...   

[Lorelei]

Ah. I thought I had removed the font = black tag (I tagged the entire post with a "select all", not the individual lines). It didn't show when I tried to edit the post to fix the URLs, so I figured I'd gotten rid of it.

One of the links I copypasta'd was showing up in yellowy-green, so I used the black tag feature to make it moar visible, but apparently failed to change it back.

[Raven]

I remember this. it makes me sad still.