A Preventable Death in Britian?

Although The Sun is a conservative paper, it is missing a key point (probably because it is in Britain). If the woman could have had a handgun, there is a good chance she would be alive. The woman had an injunction against her ex-husband and she had the 999 operator on the phone. Yet she died helpless and powerless. The old saying goes “a gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.” Unfortanutely some fail to see that gun ownership can help save innocent lives.

"THE final words of a terrified wife seconds before she was shot dead by her millionaire husband were revealed at an inquest yesterday. Trembling Julia Pemberton, 47, dialled 999 as she hid from rampaging financier Alan in a storeroom at the family house. He had already blasted their son William, 17, to death and was closing in on Julia as she desperately tried to summon help from an emergency operator. The wife, who had suffered years of abuse from Pemberton, said: “He has killed my son.” She added: “Oh God, I have about one minute before I die. I can hear him — he is coming through. “I am hiding in the storeroom. He will catch me. Here he comes. Oh my God, he’s come.” The operator heard the storeroom door open. Pemberton, brandishing a shotgun, snarled: “You f***ing whore.” Julia cried out — and the line went dead. After blasting healthcare worker Julia, 48-year-old Pemberton turned the gun on himself — leaving police to find three bodies at the £975,000 property in Hermitage, Berks. The couple split up acrimoniously after a 23-year marriage, the Reading inquest was told. Mum-of-two Julia made allegations of sexual and psychological abuse against Pemberton. And the volatile husband, who later moved in with a new love, responded with a barrage of death threats. The frightened wife, who had fought breast cancer, stayed in the five-bedroom Hermitage house while attempts ere made to sell it.

She handed in her husband’s shotguns and the family’s kitchen knives to police. She won a High Court injunction banning him from coming around. And the home was fitted with a panic button linked to a 999 call centre.....The Sun