On the night of July 1st, the German husband of 37-year-old Ms Lamai, Antonio Herrara, took an axe and a knife first into the bedroom of his stepdaughter Su, 18, and murdered the student as she slept.
The noise of the attack wakened her mother who tried to escape her husband of 11 years but was also stabbed to death in a violent attack brought upon by rage and jealousy after their marriage had broken down and Herrara discovering his wife had a new love interest.
The brutality wasn’t over as the youngest stepdaughter, 14-year-old Pia, was murdered as she made a call to emergency services. German media report the police control room heard loud screams before the call was disconnected.
Antonio and Lamai met eleven years ago in Thailand and married six months later. Five years ago the couple celebrated the birth of their first child while at the same time welcoming Lamai’s two young daughters to Germany where they planned to live together as one family.
Police say they found several letters around the couples semi-detached house in Ravensburg showing Herrara wasn’t happy at the breakdown of their marriage and had been planning to kill them all before taking his own life.
When police arrived at the scene they found an intoxicated Herrara sat on the floor crying hugging his five-year-old son.