Epsom College’s head teacher should not be seen as the “victim of a cowardly man” but remembered for her talents, according to friends who called for more education on male violence.
Police believe that George Pattison, 39, shot dead his wife Emma, 45, and their daughter Lettie, seven, before turning a firearm on himself.
Pattison spoke to Surrey police concerning his firearms licence three days before the suspected murder-suicide at the family’s residence within the grounds of the £42,000-a-year school.
Friends and former colleagues said that the incident emphasised how even successful women such as Mrs Pattison, who took charge of the school last year, remained at risk from male domestic abuse.
