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Heartless ... Andrew Copland A SECRET affair begun on Facebook could have pushed a jealous ex-partner into blowing away a mum and their daughter, an inquest heard. Crazed Andrew Copland shot Julie Harrison in the back of the head before her terrified daughter Maisie, four, was blasted with the same World War 2 pistol.  Suicidal Copland, 56, then turned the Beretta used by the Italian military on himself. A coroner was told that Julie - who had moved out Copland's house four weeks earlier - had taken their daughter round to visit her dad for a custody visit after Christmas last year.  But it was feared he shot them both after discovering his ex-partner was having a secret relationship with an old school friend and decided to kill them both and then take his own life.  An eye witness told how Julie must have realised Copland had a gun after he locked the front door.  The worried neighbour dialled 999 after seeing her hand hammering on the window ...

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