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Additional reporting by Sean McPolin A tree surgeon in financial difficulties strangled, stabbed and hit his wife with a hammer before taking his own life. Police and paramedics were called to a residential street just after midday on February 23 where they discovered two people dead. Richard Parks, 63, and “ray of sunshine” Suratchanee ‘Lat’ Parks, 53, were found with several injuries inside the first-floor bathroom at their home in Montgomery Road, Tunbridge Wells. When officers arrived, there was a large pool of blood in the downstairs kitchen and bloodstains on the stairs and in every room…

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