NHS angel and her daughter killed in 45 minutes of carnage

A MOTHER and daughter were stabbed to death in horrific attacks before a man killed himself in a suspected double murder-suicide.

- Jennifer Russell and Douglas Barrie

NHS worker Emma Robertson Coupland, 39, died in a frenzied attack outside Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Daughter Nicole Anderson, 24, was knifed 20 minutes later.

She was less than two miles away near the takeaway where she worked.

The man suspected of both stabbings then crashed his car 45 minutes later at around 8.30pm on Thursday.

His vehicle was found 12 miles south of Kilmarnock on a minor road where the 40-year-old driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

He has been named locally as Emma’s ex-partner, Steven Robertson.

The carnage sparked a major armed police response. The hospital was locked down, with ambulances diverted and patients and visitors told to stay away.

Detectives later said the three incidents were linked and no one else was being sought. It is being treated as a suspected double murder-suicide.

Emma was found injured in the hospital car park where she died.