Jilted father lay in wait in leisure centre car park to shoot dead his daughter and wife - just days after she told him their 26-year marriage was over and she was leaving him

Lance Hart, 57, (pictured, right) is believed to have killed Claire Hart, 50, and Charlotte Hart, 19, (pictured together, left), at around 9am at The Castle Leisure Centre (inset) in Spalding, Lincolnshire. 


Emergency services were called after swimmers and staff, top right, heard gunshots before the bodies of a man and his two female relatives were found in the car park. Police said that CPR was attempted on the two women with gunshot wounds but they could not be saved. Claire and Lance Hart had daughter Charlotte, (left), and sons Ryan, 25, and Luke, 26. Officers raided the Moulton home where the 'absolutely lovely family' had lived for the past seven years. Supt Paul Timmins said this afternoon that the weapon used in the killing was a shotgun and the victims 'were all known to each other'. A neighbour described Lance, who is understood to have worked at a nearby builders' merchants, as 'the nicest guy you could ever meet'. Another neighbour described the Harts, who are believed to have got married in 1990, as the 'loveliest couple ever'.