News about Richard Parks

A wife tried to fight off her tree surgeon husband as he strangled her and stabbed her to death with a hammer before taking his own life, an inquest into her death heard. 'Ray of sunshine' Suratchanee 'Lat' Parks, 53, was found dead beside Richard Parks, 63, in the first-floor bathroom of their Tunbridge Wells home in Kent, a year before they planned to retire and move to Thailand. When police arrived at the house on February 23 this year, they discovered a large pool of blood in the kitchen, bloodstains on the stairs and in every room of the house. The couple's neighbours said they were quiet and 'kept themselves to themselves,' Kent Online reported. Mrs Parks, who worked at a nail bar and Thai massage parlour, was found in the bath with her legs up in a pool of blood.