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Mad man’s trail of terror

A man began a manical rampage through Bournemouth today ending in the decapitation of his mother, the destruction of his home, and his own death.

A man now identified as Pascal Tonk is believed to have broken into the Keiran Verdon Archery Range at Chapel Gate Leisure Centre using a JCB digger. The JCB is suspected to have been taken from a nearby building site. A spokesman for Dorset Police confirmed that an Olympic-standard crossbow and bolts had been taken.

Mr Tonk is then thought to have crossed to Horseshoe Common at around 8.30 am, ridden his pushbike around the park before shooting Ms Pippa Shufflebottom’s schitzu Bounce Back Ability with the crossbow.

Animal Ambulance collected the month-old dog and its condition is unknown. Ms Shufflebottom, a twenty-year-old mobile hairdresser from Canford Heath, says her attacker looked “really weird” and that he was “just a sick person.”

At approximately 10.30 at St Augustine’s Church, Wallisdown, Belgian national Mels Rattue was shot in the eye by Tonk. He is believed to have used the stolen crossbow. Rattue was pronounced dead on the scene.

A professional bonsai tree grower, Mr Rattue had only recently arrived in Bournemouth from the Netherlands for a bonsai tree cultivator’s conference. He had a wife and two children of 3 and 7.

His companion Dennis Lansbert, 52 and a fellow bonsai tree grower, was at the incident. “I’m just devastated…it is really sad,” he said.

At around 12 noon, Mr Tonk then continued his rampage to his very own house at St. Antony’s Road and set it alight. Nineteen fire engines were called to the scene. Once firefighters had managed to beat the blaze, an examination of the inside of the house led to some grisly discoveries.

Mr Tonk’s German Shepherd Laughing Gravy and his mother, Louise ‘Lulu’ Tonk, 32, were both found decapitated and covered in petrol. They are thought to have been decapitated by a machete, and died before the fire started. They were discovered on the ground floor.

During the blaze police cornered Mr Tonk at Talbot Combined School, Wallisdown. Upon attempting to shoot his crossbow at police, Pascal Tonk , 23, was shot by officers in self defence.

“My main concern is for the safety of my officers,” says Barry Lindon, Chief Superintendant, of Tonk’s death.