July 6, 2008
Lucy Braham and William Jaggs: The murder that shook Harrow
One teacher’s son killed another teacher’s daughter, and Harrow School was shaken to its core. But the signs of an increasingly troubled mind had been apparent for many years
Monday evening in September 2006, and two middle-aged men – neighbours, colleagues, friends – are having a pint at their local pub. They had walked down West Street to the Castle after a dinner to mark the start of the new term at the school where they worked. Both men were eminent in their profession, senior members of staff at one of the world’s most prestigious private schools, Harrow.