Suicide watch on murder Briton
Last updated at 21:00 03 January 2007
A British man accused of murdering his American wife and baby has been sent to a psychiatric hospital over fears that he might commit suicide, U.S. police said.
Prison guards found a letter written by Neil Entwistle to his parents in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in which he reportedly gave instructions for his burial.
The 28-year-old IT worker is accused of shooting his wife Rachel, 27, and nine-month-old daughter Lillian Rose last January at the family home in Massachusetts.
The day after their deaths he flew to England where he was later arrested. The letter was found shortly after guards at the Middlesex County Jail in Cambridge, Massachusetts, stopped another inmate from attacking Entwistle.
Two days earlier, a judge turned down a plea by Entwistle to be released on bail so he could return to Britain.
Middlesex Sheriff James DiPaola confirmed the Briton had been sent to the Bridgewater State Hospital to be 'evaluated'. Entwistle's lawyer, Elliot Weinstein, refused to comment.
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