 Money collected will go to the Highmoor Children's Appeal |
Residents in a village where a man shot dead his wife and her sister at a barbecue have raised nearly �6,000 for the two children who saw the killings. Stuart Horgan killed himself after being charged with murdering estranged wife Vicky and Emma Walton in Highmoor Cross, Oxfordshire.
Villagers took to the streets with buckets last Thursday, to collect cash from motorists passing through.
All the money raised will go to the Highmoor Children's Appeal.
Neighbour Dawn Clarke said: "It took seven volunteers one-and-a-half hours to count it and people are still giving money."
The fund will support Mrs Horgan's daughter Jade, seven, and the child she had with Stuart Horgan, Bobbie, three.
Ms Horgan, 27, and 25-year-old Ms Walton, from Reading, Berkshire, were killed with a single-barrelled shotgun on 6 June.
The sisters' mother, Jacqueline, was also critically injured in the shooting and is recovering in hospital.
Mr Horgan killed himself on 20 June with a dismantled disposable razor while in prison.
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