A couple in debt and facing eviction from their country manor killed their dog and then shot themselves in a tragic suicide pact.
John and Angela Richardson killed themselves with a shotgun in the 100-acre woodland behind their £4,500-a-month rented farmhouse, after investors started to pull out of a new business they had set up.
A coroner was told that the elderly couple had got themselves into "irredeemable debt" starting their business - the Space Flight Academy Ltd - which promised aeromedical research and space flight simulations.
