Police admit murder blunders

Police will today admit a catalogue of mistakes over the handling of a triple shooting at a family barbecue which left two sisters dead.

A critical report by Thames Valley Police into the killings will say that officers waited too long before allowing paramedics to treat the victims.

One witness who lives next door to where Victoria Horgan, 27, and her sister Emma Walton, 25, were murdered, maintains their slow response cost the women their lives.

The two sisters were shot at point-blank range by Mrs Horgan ' s estranged husband Stuart at her home in Highmoor Cross, Oxfordshire, four months ago. Their 55-year-old mother was also shot in front of Mrs Horgan's two daughters aged four and seven.

Horgan, 39 , was arrested the following day. He killed himself in jail 13 days later.