By Calvin Palmer
Her father may have betrayed her love and trust but friends of Kirstie Foster have not forgotten her. They have compiled videos on YouTube that pay tribute to the 15-year-old girl who was so tragically taken from them last week.
But one of the videos, posted by a 14-year-old user called RowanBrook and reported by The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror, has since been removed. It had received 19,120 viewings.
According to The Daily Telegraph, it showed dozens of still photographs accompanied by Immortal by Evanescence. The pictures featured Kirstie riding her beloved horses, water skiing on holiday, and her four dogs.
It ended with the message: “Our heart’s are empty now ure not here, Everytime we think of you we shead a tear. It’s hard to believe that you are gone but in our heart’s is were u belong. Rip, youre in our heart’s forever. Love your Kirstie.”
If RowanBrook attended the same school as Kirstie, I have a feeling parents forced the withdrawal of her video on account of the abysmal spelling and grammar. The message hardly does justice to an expensive education at an exclusive private school.
Another video featuring similar photographs and posted by a user called nickinaknole still remains along with a more recent one by a user called swansongorigami.
Kirstie was a talented horse-rider and, earlier this month, had qualified for the British Society Pony Show and the UK Ponies Winter Championships.
Brendan Wignall headmaster of her school, Ellesmere College, described her as “a lovely girl and good all-round sportswoman.”
Kirstie’s life was ended during her father’s killing spree and destruction of their ₤1.2 million home in Shropshire. Christopher Foster, aged 50, had seen his business go into liquidation and was facing repossession of Osbaston House, his mansion near Oswestry.
Determined to deprive his creditors of the ₤1.8 million he owed and also save himself from public humiliation, Foster killed his wife Jillian, aged 49, his daughter, the family’s dogs and horses, before setting fire to the house and then turning his 0.22 rifle on himself.
