Knot weed drives a man to kill...

[Ty Korrigan]

Here:

Kenneth McRae killed wife Jane and then himself over knotweed fears - BBC News

 

Ty:confused1:

[Gary Prentice]

So sad.

 

Maybe if the media didn't ramp up the problems of JK so much, there would be less concern over it and this could have been averted?

[Vespasian]

So sad.

 

Maybe if the media didn't ramp up the problems of JK so much, there would be less concern over it and this could have been averted?

 

 

This wasn't about Knott Weed, its about some numpty murdering his wife over the value of the house..

[SteveA]

This wasn't about Knott Weed, its about some numpty murdering his wife over the value of the house..

 

I'm no expert but I'd say mental health (or lack of) did it.

[Gary Prentice]

This wasn't about Knott Weed, its about some numpty murdering his wife over the value of the house..

 

So you you don't think media hysteria about a plant added to his mental burden?

[Joe Newton]

So you you don't think media hysteria about a plant added to his mental burden?

 

 

If it wasn't knotweed something else would likely have triggered it. Must have been a tragically unstable bloke.

[Gary Prentice]

If it wasn't knotweed something else would likely have triggered it. Must have been a tragically unstable bloke.

 

We'll never know. I just have a bit of an issue with JK reporting and the huge costs and problems that home owners have with it. We regularly get calls from people buying/selling a house who can't move on because of a little patch of JK two doors down/on vacant land at the bottom of the garden etc etc.

[Vespasian]

So you you don't think media hysteria about a plant added to his mental burden?

 

Of course it did, but is it an excuse?... who else has killed their wife because knott Weed was growing nearby?...

 

Its a simple case of a crank doing something dumb because his mind wasn't right...

 

bear in mind a woman is dead, and somehow someone talks about knott weed as though it aught be relevant to her demise...

 

 

I know we default to looking at cases like this as tragic, but really, we aught look again and see it as murder and suicide...

His suicide, her murder...

 

 

Contempt for him, sadness for her...