Girl of 9 Sees Her Father Stabbed to Death ; Millionaire's Wife Fights for Life After Horror at Chelsea Home

Daily Mail › December 01, 2004

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A GIRL of nine witnessed the knife murder of her banker father at their Pounds 3million home, it emerged last night.

John Monckton, a 49-year-old father of two, was killed and his wife Homeyra, 45, left fighting for her life after two intruders burst into their four-storey Chelsea townhouse.

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Girl of 9 Sees Her Father Stabbed to Death ; Millionaire's Wife Fights for Life After Horror at Chelsea Home

Their younger daughter Isabel was in the house as the frenzied early evening attack took place and it was she who rang 999 as her parents screamed for help and the culprits fled.

Multimillionaire Mr Monckton, a director of financial giant Legal General, later died from his injuries. His wife ...

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