Tragic girl, 7, shot in head by her own FATHER

A seven-year-old girl was shot in the head on the doorstep of her home by her father before he turned the gun on himself, an inquest has heard.

Mary Shipstone, also known as Maryam Alromisse, was killed as she stood next to her mother, clutching a new violin, after she returned from school on September 11 last year, Hastings Coroner's Court was told.

She was taken to King's College Hospital, London, but later died of her injuries.

Her father, Yasser Alromisse, 46, was hidden in the rear of a silver Toyota on the drive by the house, in Northiam, near Rye, East Sussex, when he fired the shots.

The car windows were tinted and he had created a blind from bin bags to shield himself, the hearing was told.

His body was later found in a pool of blood in the rear of the car, where he had shot himself in the head.

East Sussex coroner Alan Craze concluded that Mary had been unlawfully killed, and ruled her father's death as suicide.