A father who fatally shot his daughter after earlier rowing aboutDonald Trumphas broken his silence. Lucy Harrison, a fashion buyer from Warrington, Cheshire, was hit in the chest from “medium range” by her father Kris Harrison while she was staying at his home in theUnited States, an inquest heard.
In a statement issued by his solicitors, Mr Harrison said he is “deeply sorry”. He said: “I fully accept the consequences of my actions, and there isn’t a day I don’t feel the weight of that loss — a weight I will carry for the rest of my life, and I know that nothing I say can ease the heartbreak this tragedy has caused. I cannot undo what happened, but I can honour Lucy by being the best father I can be to her sisters and by carrying her memory forward in everything we do.
“I am deeply sorry for the pain others feel from this tragedy. Lucy’s spirit — her warmth, her humour, her kindness — will live on in all of us who loved her.”
The incident at Mr Harrison’s home in Prosper, Texas, happened in January last year.
Giving evidence at Cheshire Coroner’s Court on Tuesday, Ms Harrison’s boyfriend Sam Littler said he had travelled with her to the US, where her father had moved when she was a child, for the holiday.
He said Ms Harrison would often become upset with her father, who the inquest heard was an alcoholic, when he spoke about his ownership of a gun.
On the morning of January 10, when the couple were due to return home to the UK, there was a “big” argument between Ms Harrison and her father about Mr Trump, who was to be inaugurated as president, Mr Littler said.
He said: “Kris and Lucy ended up having quite a big argument which led to Lucy running upstairs and being upset.”
He said Ms Harrison asked her father how he would feel if she was sexually assaulted.
Mr Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much, Mr Littler said.
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