A young girl who was mercilessly killed by her angry next-door neighbour after a noise dispute “did not stand a chance” in the face of such disproportionate aggression, her grandfather has said. Solaine Thornton, 11, was innocently playing on the swings when her 71-year-old neighbour, who was “under the influence of drugs”, “fired several shots” at the little girl and her family in the hamlet of Saint-Herbot, northwestern France over the weekend.
Solaine’s father, Adrian, has been left in critical condition after he was shot in the head while the mother, Rachel, was shot twice in the head and back; Solaine’s younger sister Celeste, 8, was physically unharmed but has been left indelibly scarred after watching her sibling brutally murdered in front of her.
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