Mum's horrifying explanation for driving kids to country lane and shooting them

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Diane Downs claimed a 'bushy-haired stranger' had shot her and her three children on a quiet country road - but the truth was far more chilling, as her surviving daughter would later reveal


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