STOCKPORT, ENGLAND — A 63-year-old woman who confessed that she killed her father after finding his child pornography connection has been charged with his murder.
Barbara Coombes walked into a police station in Stockport, England, in January and confessed to police that she killed her father, Kenneth Coombes, 12 years earlier and buried his body in their back garden.
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Barbara said that her father had abused her physically and repeatedly raped her for over 40 years.
The Guardian reported that the abuse started when Barbara was only five years old — and that she said when she was between the ages of six and nine her father “took her to a photography club where he forced her to display her genitals while other men took photographs of her.”
Barbara was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
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Barbara described herself as like her father’s “sex slave,” according to The Guardian. She said that she finally “snapped” in January 2006 after finding child pornography in the home they shared, her attorney Martin Heslop said in a news release. Shockingly, she said that she found lewd images of herself and another child as babies — which made her realize that she wasn’t her father’s only victim.
Having hit her breaking point after a lifetime of sexual abuse, Barbara hit her father with a gardening spade, according to Greater Manchester police. She hit her father in the back of the head first, and then a second time when he turned around. Barbara used the sharp blade of the spade to slit her father’s throat. She then wrapped the body in a rug, buried it in their garden, and took his belongings out of the house, according to police.
Barbara told her friends and family that her dad had been cremated. But she managed to hide his death from the government — and was able to collect $230,000 in benefits before she confessed to the crime.
She finally told police what had happened after authorities continued to pressure her for a meeting with Kenneth.
Barbara, now 64, also pleaded guilty to fraud and obtaining property by deception as well as preventing a lawful and decent burial.
Her attorney stated that she had post-traumatic stress disorder and severe depression. The judge said that she had endured “40 years of extreme mental, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of your father.”
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Nevertheless, the judge did not find that Barbara had killed her father in self-defense. Law enforcement took a harsher tone about the crime.
Senior Investigating Officer Duncan Thorpe of the Greater Manchester police said in a statement that Barbara “showed absolutely no concern for what she had done and denied everyone the chance to say good-bye” and pointed out that she only admitted to the crime when she “had no other choice.”
Barbara’s daughter said in court that, despite her grief, she would support her mother and hopes to build a relationship with her. “I hope when this is done we can repair our relationship to something approaching normal,” she said.
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Main photo: Barbara Coombes [Greater Manchester Police]
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