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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Amber Edwards & Carl Eve & Abigail Nicholson

DARK SECRETS: True blue dad killed in mass shooting found cradling his princess | Rare Historical Photos

A doting dad who was killed in mass shooting was "cradling" his "beautiful" three-year-old daughter as he died, an inquest has heard.

During the inquest into the five deaths at the hands of Plymouth gunman Jake Davison, a jury has heard statements from neighbours in Biddick Drive, where Davison and Lee Martyn, 43, and his daughter Sophie all lived. In a heartbreaking account, one witness said three-year-old Sophie and her dad were found "cradling each other" following the fatal incident.

Bridget Dolan, counsel to the coroner, read out two statements from residents in Biddick Drive at the inquest into the deaths of Stephen Washington, aged 59, Kate Shepherd, aged 66, Maxine Davison, aged 51, and Sophie and her dad Lee.

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