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A 52-year-old doctor battered his 55-year-old
wife to death before committing suicide.
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Kenneth McRae
had battered his wife Jane with a bottle of perfume while laying in their bed,
thereby causing fatal head injuries as a result of his fears that their home,
in Rowley Regis, West Midlands had been infected by Japanese knotweed.
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After
committing suicide, the Doctor who was said to have suffered from paranoia over
the knotweed, left a suicide note which read 'I
believe I was not an evil man, until the balance of my mind was disturbed by
the fact there is a patch of Japanese knotweed which has been growing over our
boundary fence on the Rowley Regis Golf Course.'
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After trying
to curb the weed's growth unsuccessfully, he said the risk of structural damage
and legal battles 'led to my growing madness.'
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'Jane and I
were a very private couple, we chose to have no real friends, just enjoying
each other.
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'But the
despair has got so bad that today I have killed her, as I did not want her to
be alone without an income when I killed myself.' he wrote.
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Japanese
knotweeda is a tall fast-growing Japanese plant of the dock family, with
bamboo-like stems and small white flowers. It has been grown as an ornamental
but tends to become an aggressive weed.
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