‘I helped my mum and sister escape our controlling dad – then he murdered them’

Claire and Charlotte Hart were killed on 19 July, 2016 Five days after Luke Hart and his younger brother Ryan had secretly moved their mum, Claire, and sister, Charlotte, into a rented house in Spalding, Luke received a distressed phone call. ‘Ryan was in tears, asking if I had seen the news,’ the 36-year-old tells Metro. ‘He said three people had been shot in Spalding.’ Luke remembers that Ryan had a horrible feeling the murders somehow involved their mum and sister, but even so, the pair tried desperately to keep calm until they knew more. ‘But Ryan couldn’t get through to mum and Charlotte,’ Luke recalls. ‘After calling the police with our details, they soon rang back to break the news that the people killed were our mum, dad, and Charlotte. ‘It took ages for that to sink in.’ As the br