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Two brothers whose father shot dead their mother and sister have described him as a "terrorist".Two brothers whose father shot dead their mother and sister have described him as a "terrorist".
Lance Hart, 57, killed his wife Claire, 50, and daughter Charlotte, 19, outside a swimming pool in Spalding last July.Lance Hart, 57, killed his wife Claire, 50, and daughter Charlotte, 19, outside a swimming pool in Spalding last July.
His sons, Luke and Ryan, said they had endured a "lifetime of struggle" with his controlling behaviour.His sons, Luke and Ryan, said they had endured a "lifetime of struggle" with his controlling behaviour.
"He had nothing to live for other than killing us," Luke, 27, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme."He had nothing to live for other than killing us," Luke, 27, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
The murders happened days after Mrs Hart had left the family home following a breakdown in the couple's marriage.The murders happened days after Mrs Hart had left the family home following a breakdown in the couple's marriage.
Hart shot the pair with a single-barrel shotgun in the swimming pool car park before turning the weapon on himself. Hart shot the pair with a single-barrel shotgun in a swimming pool car park before turning the weapon on himself.
'Inexplicable anger'
Luke said it was his father's final act to ensure the family could not live without him. He had left a 12-page suicide note saying "revenge is a dish served cold".Luke said it was his father's final act to ensure the family could not live without him. He had left a 12-page suicide note saying "revenge is a dish served cold".
"Someone like our father was a terrorist. He was planning to kill all of us three weeks before killing them," Luke said. "It's pure evil, he hated us. He had the mentality of a terrorist, he was willing to kill himself to achieve what he achieved. Someone who's that fundamental, you can't stop. That's what makes our case so difficult to comprehend, we weren't safe whatever we did, if we had stayed he was planning to kill us there," he said.
"When it's your own father...the anger is inexplicable. It's so complicated and horrible and the media treated it like a one-off, but for us it was a culmination of a lifetime of struggle.""When it's your own father...the anger is inexplicable. It's so complicated and horrible and the media treated it like a one-off, but for us it was a culmination of a lifetime of struggle."
The brothers said he controlled the household by restricting money and isolating their mother from support networks.The brothers said he controlled the household by restricting money and isolating their mother from support networks.
"He was vitriolic and a bully who would be verbally abusive and threaten us. Luke said it was only in retrospect they can understand his subtle behaviours were about power.
"In a way you feel pity and sympathy and feel weakness and think he needs help. When we tried to get him help he'd refuse," Luke said. "The thing that makes it really dangerous, he was always very self-escalating in his behaviour, as his final actions proved. He was incredibly self-destructive and for us it was always a matter of shaping around him - we had to give in.
"He held traditional masculine beliefs and a lot of people think that is normal. He thought he owned us and saw us as protected by him but we were entirely oppressed by him." "So we became really blind to it in the end, until we got to the point when he had mum's keys and documents and passport in a safe and we had no financial ability to do anything."
Luke said his mother had been keeping a diary of everything his father had said and done, but "as there were no bruises" they never felt it was something they could take to the police. The brothers said their mother had been keeping a diary of everything his father had said and done, but "as there were no bruises" they never felt it was something they could take to the police.
"Even if we did, what would they have done? They wouldn't have taken him out of the house. Ryan, 26, said: "That's why we were so blind to our situation as we were looking out for physical violence. We didn't realise the danger of our situation. Physical violence is not the only sign of domestic abuse - quite often there is none."
"He would have broken any restraining order. The problem is you can only protect people by having universal societal beliefs."
The boys, who had worked hard to give their mother and sister a better life, had moved her out of the house so "she would be safer" while the couple's divorce went through.The boys, who had worked hard to give their mother and sister a better life, had moved her out of the house so "she would be safer" while the couple's divorce went through.
At the time of the killings, some reports quoted neighbours who described Hart as a "very, very nice guy" who had struggled to deal with the breakdown of his marriage.At the time of the killings, some reports quoted neighbours who described Hart as a "very, very nice guy" who had struggled to deal with the breakdown of his marriage.
Ryan, 26, said: "What a lot of the papers wrote about was that he was a nice man and almost justifying what he did. Not about mum and Charlotte's lives, but about feeling sorry for him. Ryan said: "Many tried to justify it as an act of love. I've since seen it's not unique to our situation. Love is one word which would not fit. It detracts from the seriousness of domestic abuse and almost sympathises with the abuser.
"When emotional abuse is talked about the onus is on the victims to escape or put up with it. There is no other form of murder where victims are blamed.""When emotional abuse is talked about the onus is on the victims to escape or put up with it. There is no other form of murder where victims are blamed."
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