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A double killer has been shot dead by police after beheading his mother with machete and killing a Belgian resident with crossbow through the eye.

 The suspect, Pascal Tonk, age 21, decapitated his mother and his dog before pouring petrol over them and setting fire to the family home. Fire officers found Louise Tonk, also known as Lulu, aged 32, this morning after investigating the fire on St. Antonys Road.

 Mr. Tonk was also involved in another murder after the fire, where a crossbow through the eye, outside St. Augustins Church, killed Mels Rattue, 32, from Tilburg in the Netherlands.

 Mr Rattue was on a Bonsai tree convention when he was attacked by the bolt whilst getting off the bus. A friend of the victim, Dennis Landsbert, 52, also from Tilborg said, ‘It’s very sad, he had a wife and young children.’

 The crossbow may also be linked to an earlier incident that morning, as the Keiran Verden Archery Range, at Chapel Gate, was broken into by a JCB digger at 8am. A crossbow and bolts were stolen from the sports centre, which may be the weapons used at the murder of Mr Rattue and an incident in Horse Shoe Common where a dog was shot with a crossbow.  

 Police Chief constable, Barry Linden has said, ‘Mr Tonk was later shot dead by police, after he was found at Talbot Combined School, after threatening police with the crossbow’.  The day’s events have left two people and a dog dead.