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Police teams examine the crime scene in Upper Cheyne Row yesterday - burglary is the suspected motive. Pic: Getty Financier killed as he confronts burglars
KAREN MCVEIGHA WEALTHY and highly respected City of London financier was stabbed to death and his wife was left seriously injured after two knife-wielding intruders burst into their multi-million pound townhouse in Chelsea.
John Monckton’s family were "profoundly shocked" by the murder and described him as an "incredibly gentle and thoughtful man".
The couple’s nine-year-old daughter, Isobel, alerted emergency services after finding her parents fighting for their lives after the incident on Monday night. Detectives believe it could have been an attempted burglary, but were keeping an open mind on the motive for the attack.
Yesterday, shocked residents of the exclusive and close-knit area, where actors, rock stars and the aristocracy live next to leading lawyers and businessmen, spoke of a spate of burglaries, robberies and assaults in recent years.
Mr Monckton, 49, died in hospital shortly after the attack. His wife, Homeyra, 45, who was also stabbed, was in a stable condition at St Thomas’ Hospital last night after undergoing "significant surgery" for her injuries. She is not expected to be discharged for a week. The couple’s other daughter, Sabrina, 12, was at her boarding school, St Mary’s Ascot, at the time of the murder. She travelled to be with her mother and sister yesterday.
A respected director with financial giant Legal and General and a leading City authority on the corporate bond market, Mr Monckton was also well-known for his deeply held religious beliefs and charitable work. The cousin of Rosa Monckton, a close friend of the late Princess Diana and wife of Dominic Lawson, the Sunday Telegraph editor, Mr Monckton came from a well-established Catholic family and was active in the Knights of Malta charity, which helps the poor.
Police were called to the Moncktons’ home, in Upper Cheyne Row, near Albert Bridge, at around 7:35pm on Monday.
Detective Superintendent Mark Jackson said it was too early to establish a motive, but Mr Monckton’s business affairs and the possibility of burglary were "key lines of inquiry".
He added: "The early indications are that two males forced entry into the premises and that is when the offences occurred, and they then decamped from the scene. A murder inquiry has now commenced."
Police are looking at CCTV footage as well as doing forensic tests at the scene and making door-to-door inquiries. Several witnesses have come forward; the suspects were seen fleeing down Glebe Place and on towards the King’s Road.
Yesterday, many residents of Upper Cheyne Row, a tranquil, residential street full of Grade II listed homes, now sealed off by police tape, said they were "saddened and shocked" by the news. The Moncktons’ close neighbours include Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman, the Marquess of Blandford and several leading financiers.
Canon Michael Brockie, of Our Most Holy Redeemer of Saint Thomas More Church opposite the Moncktons’ home, was with Mr Monckton when he died and comforted his wife yesterday. He said she was recovering well.
Canon Brockie described the family as "very close-knit, very dedicated to one another, very private." He said that Mr Monckton, who was on the church’s finance committee, was a "wonderful father and husband" and his death was a "great personal loss, both to me and the parish".
The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, also paid tribute to Mr Monckton, a relative of Lord Monckton, the late owner of Catholic newspaper, the Universe. He said he was horrified by news of the murder of "an exceptional and faithful man".
Canon Brockie, who was in the church at the time of the murder, said he heard a burglar alarm, followed by a banging door, before he went outside to see ambulances. He spoke of a series of recent crimes, including one in the church opposite the Moncktons’ house, which left an officer of the church brain-damaged after an attack by an intruder. The priest said he knew of at least three violent burglaries in Chelsea in the past six weeks.
One resident said yesterday that it was the third time in two years that the street had been sealed off with police tape after a major crime. Another spoke of a burglary nearby, where intruders had barged in after a resident opened the door.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard confirmed the attack at the church, in January, and a car hijack, in April, in Cheyne Row, which resulted in two convictions. The Metropolitan Police’s website shows that while Kensington and Chelsea has relatively low crime figures compared for London, it has seen a 66 per cent increase in robberies over the past year, with 87 incidents in 2004. Burglary is also up 16 per cent, from 224 to 240, while violence against the person has seen a 12 per cent increase, from 237 to 266. The borough has also seen the highest percentage rise in knife crime in London in the past two years, with 236 offences in the ten months to March, 35 per cent up on a year earlier.
In 1999, Robert Robinson, former TV presenter for Call My Bluff, and his wife, Josephine, were robbed of £2,000 of jewellery 100 yards from the Monckton property.
PILLAR OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
AS WELL as being a respected figure in the City, John Monckton came from a family whose achievements straddled politics, finance and the law. He was a cousin of Rosa Monckton, one of the best friends of Diana, Princess of Wales and the wife of Dominic Lawson, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
Among his forebears was Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, confidant to Edward VIII during the abdication, who went on to serve in a Tory government as paymaster-general.
Mr Monckton, 49, was a highly respected and senior City fund manager who had been with Legal and General’s investment management division for eight years.
He specialised in the bond markets and was a leading authority on the subject. He headed the bond investment team at L&G.
Born into a distinguished legal family, he was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar as a member of Lincoln’s Inn in 1979. He went to the City in that year, joining the broker Barclays de Zoete Wedd. He later went on to fund managers Foreign & Colonial.
He was also known for his charity work and was a trustee of the Orders of St John which runs St John Ambulance.
It was the 1st Viscount Monckton who achieved the greatest prominence in recent years. The viscount - born Walter Monckton - was the MP for Bristol West from 1951-57 and served in the ministries of defence and labour before becoming paymaster-general.~~~~~~
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