By Helen Bamford
Cape Town family murder survivor Debbie Adlington says she will never know what made her husband Tony snap, bludgeon their three children to death with an axe, half kill her and take his own life.
In the first interview since the tragedy that wiped out her family, she told the Weekend Argus this week that the unanswered questions would haunt her forever.
"When you've been with a guy for 18 years you can never expect it. Had I known, I would have taken the children and run away. Sometimes, I think I should have left years ago."
'Sometimes, I think I should have left years ago' Adlington is still in Conradie Hospital but recovering remarkably well from the horrendous axe wounds in the head inflicted by her husband.
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She still has no feeling in her left arm and, as she talks, she constantly clasps her hands together.
Otherwise she appears confident and strong, overcome by emotion only when she mentions her children.
She examines a pill brought to her by a nurse for a slight allergy she has developed, before popping it into her mouth.
"They wanted to put me on anti-depressants or sedate me but I said no way."
'It would take a lot to ever trust a man again' The horror attack happened at the couple's Cannon Island Way home on Eastlake Island in January.
Police and emergency service personnel called to the scene found the bodies of estate agent Tony Adlington, 48, and the couple's three children, Craig, 9, Kevin, 12, and Katelyn, 11, in his study. Adlington had killed the children with an axe and then set them alight before shooting himself.
Beforehand he had bludgeoned his wife on the head with the blunt end of the axe and walked out of their bedroom, shutting the door behind him.
"I don't remember much about the attack except I know Tony never came to bed. He must have been sitting up waiting for his chance," she said, adding that she had not even seen him coming.
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