Beyond All Evil: Two monsters, two mothers, a love that will last forever
June Thomson
Jim McBeth
Giselle Ross
Marion Scott
June Thomson and Giselle Ross are inextricably linked by two unspeakable acts of evil. On the same day, a few miles apart, their estranged husbands slaughtered their children. The murders were not driven by rage, or committed in moments of madness. They were planned, and carried out with chilling precision, to inflict the worst pain imaginable.June and Giselle did not know each other. Tragedy is all that binds them; they were destined to come together as ‘sisters’, united by pain, grief and a sense of loss so immense that it would drive both to the brink of madness.June’s life with Rab Thomson had been a dark and turbulent existence, characterised by mental torture, physical violence and rape. Giselle’s relationship with Ashok Kalyanjee had been a strange and distant affair, of lives spent apart before, during and after marriage.But both relationships had produced two beautiful children, and the women believed that their misery was in the past. Both mothers believed it was important to allow the fathers’ access to their children. On that fateful Saturday in May 2008, neither could have conceived that the men they had once loved would do anything to harm their children. But they were wrong, so terribly wrong.Nothing can bring their children back. But June and Giselle have one solitary comfort: they are no longer alone. Their lives may have been torn apart, but they have each other. Together, they are stronger.This is the story of their parallel journeys: of the dreadful days before, during, and after the murders of their children. Told in their own words, with searing honesty of their pain, and guilt, it is a story of endurance, friendship, and survival against the odds. It is not a story for the faint hearted, but it is a story that must be told, for in the end, it is a testament to the human spirit.
BEYOND
ALL EVIL
June Thomson & Giselle Ross
with Marion Scott and Jim McBeth
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First published by HarperElement 2011
© June Thomson, Giselle Ross, Marion Scott and Jim McBeth 2011
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Dedication
To little Jay-Jay, Paul, Ryan and Michelle –
forever innocent, forever loved
Contents
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Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Prologue: Fairy Shoes and Toy Soldiers
Chapter 1 - Beginnings
Chapter 2 - Love of Our Lives
Chapter 3 - Moths to a Flame
Chapter 4 - Rings on Our Fingers
Chapter 5 - Closer to the Flame
Chapter 6 - I Take This Man
Chapter 7 - The Honeymoon Is Over
Chapter 8 - The Way It Is
Chapter 9 - Even in Darkness
Chapter 10 - Nothing Ever Changes
Chapter 11 - Behind Painted Smiles
Chapter 12 - A Deeper, Darker Place
Chapter 13 - If Only ... (June)
Chapter 14 - This Child of Mine
Chapter 15 - So Alone
Chapter 16 - Why Didn’t We Walk Away?
Chapter 17 - These Special Gifts