Overview
- Area coroner Jayne Wilkes ruled unlawful killing for Rose Jobson and suicide for Robert Jobson at an inquest in Cleethorpes on January 8, 2026.
- Emergency services were called to White Lodge in Thornton Curtis around 3:30pm on July 14, 2023, where Rose was found fatally shot and Robert was also pronounced dead.
- Police had removed six licensed shotguns from the property in June 2023, but Robert obtained a borrowed double‑barrel shotgun hours before the killings after saying he needed it to shoot crows.
- Robert had been arrested on July 8 on suspicion of domestic violence and was on conditional bail barring contact with Rose and attendance at the property; police told the inquest there was nothing more they could have done.
- Evidence cited by the coroner included a newly bought car parked at a neighbour’s and indications he waited for Rose’s return, while post‑mortem and ballistics showed she was shot first from several metres and then at close range.