The Fife mother whose children were slaughtered by her husband has warned that the parole board will have “blood on their hands” if they release him next month.
June Thomson, 65, has been left virtually blind and suffering debilitating conditions brought on by the trauma of discovering her two children stabbed 26 times with their bloodied bodies posed like angels praying.
Now she has been told that her ex-husband Rab Thomson will be considered for parole on July 1.
‘Living in fear’
June told The Sunday Post: “If the parole board let Rab go free, there will be blood on their hands because he vowed he would kill me if I ever tried to leave him.
“I’ve spent 17 years with the torment of knowing my freedom from Rab cost me my children, and now I won’t even be able to see him coming for me because I’m almost blind.”
June has lived in fear at a secret address miles from the family home in Buckhaven, Fife, where Rab slaughtered seven-year-old Ryan and Michelle, 27, who had learning difficulties, on May 3, 2008.
The murders happened the same day a court granted him access after June finally plucked up the courage to leave him.
She said: “The sheriff who granted Rab access that day signed the children’s death warrant, and if the parole board free him next month, they will be signing mine.
“Rab will always be a danger to me and my family.
“I know that man inside out. I know how he thinks.
“As far as he will be concerned, he has nothing left to live for.
“That is why I am quite sure he will come for me and any family who get in his way.”
‘Palpable anger’
June’s MP, Scottish Labour’s Richard Baker, and his MSP wife Claire have written to Parole Board Scotland opposing Thomson’s release.
Baker said: “We both feel it is our duty to convey to board members the palpable anger expressed by the local community on learning that Rab Thomson is being considered for release.”
The Courier’s A Voice for Victims campaign is calling for reforms to the parole system in Scotland.
We want the rights of victims put at the heart of the process.
Due to our campaign, parole reform is now being considered on the upcoming Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform bill.
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