Will We Ever Know What Happened At The Premier Inn?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324251/Margaret-Nicola-McDonough-Daughter-dies-days-injuries-close-dying-mother-Premier-Inn.html

The mother and daughter travelled 25 miles from their Paisley home to the Inn at Greenock more likeky to attend a function seeing that they left the Inn at 3.50 on the Thursday and returned in the early hours of the Friday.

Both were found at the hotel with slash wounds (not stab wounds), which both proved fatal to both mother and daughter, the mother was found in their room and the daughter in the hall way.

[LazyGun]

@jno Ahh, i thought you meant that the police had issued the statement as some sort of a ruse.

I guess their might not be evidence to show another individual was present, but I would be surprised were that found to be the case...

[jno]

LazyGun, I think that may have been what ummmm suggested, and for all I know she may be right.

Funnily enough I feel a twinge of satisfaction that the truth may not come out; I sort of like the idea that people may still do things in private that are never discovered. I am probably just nostagic for the days before CCTV.

[anneasquith]

only an opinion........I believe they returned to the travel inn around 12mn. and 1am. were they intoxicated ? a fight between them both with horrendous outcome. ?

[vodkancoke]

The locals in Greenock are saying (they think) it was a suicide pact, however I doubt very much a woman who fosters children would want the children to be left with no parent but that's just my opinion. Who knows if the reason why will ever be released. It's very strange and very sad.

[stewey]

Guess what? My wife and I are contemplating taking a trip to the Sandwich Islands..Can't really afford it: but, might do it on a lei-away plan.

[FredPuli43]

Suicide pact. Suicides have strange planning. The two would choose a hotel rather than their homes, because there is no chance of anybody visiting. If there was a chance of anyone coming in, looking in, or raising the alarm because nobody came to the door; all risks, among others, resulting in one or both being saved; the pact would fail. The injuries, 'slash wounds' ,as reported, suggest a wish to bleed to death. That there is no known motive for a suicide pact does not alter this finding; suicides commonly have no apparent motive. And the police didn't think anyone else was involved. There was plainly no sign of a struggle, and any outside murderer would have to know where they were; if not, he'd have to have, or get, access to the room and kill them in the course of robbery or be some wandering pyschopath

[BilSuth]

Suicides often don't make much sense to other people, and lots of other news stories also have elements that don't fit, e.g. in this case, leaving one's children to mourn (as has been observed). I suppose that whatever the trigger was, it was strong enough for suicide to become an obsession. There was plenty of time to have had second thoughts and so maybe alcohol was used to reinforce the resolve.
I don't think it is at all ghoulish to wonder what happened. The prima facie explanation is usually the right one, in spite of some facts that "don't fit".
The tabloids will probably tell us "why" long before the inquest.