The Dreams of Kings by David K. Saunders

Do not worry, we will sort this out’”.’Ī bullet hole in the window of Mr Saunders' home ‘And I would have said, “Sweetheart, it is OK. ‘I think he would have just said, “Darling, I am sorry”. I know that Mark would never, ever have hurt me. She told an inquest into his death: ‘The truth of our relationship was Mark and I loved each other.

It was only after his death that she found out he had repeatedly asked to speak to her before police opened fire and that he also sent her a blank text message. She choked back tears as she relived the siege and said she was convinced she could have calmed him down by saying: 'Darling, it's all right. He was eventually killed by police after a five-hour stand-off.īut yesterday Mrs Saunders claimed she could have saved his life if police had not forced her to turn off her mobile phone and refused to let her talk to her husband. X’- a lyric by the The Doors from their song ‘he End, which featured in the movie, Apocalypse Now. The Oxford-educated barrister sent his best friend and the best man at his wedding, Alex Booth a text message saying: ‘This is the end my only friend.

Westminster Coroners Court heard how moments before he started shooting neighbouring properties, the high-flying lawyer told a taxi driver: ‘I’m going to die’. In the hours before his death Mr Saunders had been on a drinking binge, called a number of escort agenices and appeared to be high on drugs, after taking cocaine days earlier. 'I'm shooting out of the window:' Mark Saunders was speaking to a family friend on the phone during the siege

The Dreams of Kings by David K. Saunders