Wife of Former Tesco Director stabs herself to death

The wife of a millionaire businessman stabbed herself to death just days after the birth of their first grandchild. The body of Bernadette McConchie, 57, was found at the home she shared with her husband, Neil. Friends said the mother-of-two and her husband, a former Tesco director, had recently returned from holiday together.
Mrs McConchie’s body was discovered just after 5pm on Wednesday at the sprawling five-bedroom home she had lived in for the past 12 years. She had died from a single stab wound.
Last night neighbours in the upmarket village of Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire, spoke of their  shock at her death:
‘It just makes no sense. Bernie was a really nice  person who had just had the best possible news about her first grandchild. She never showed any signs that anything was wrong. Something catastrophic must have happened.’
Another neighbour said:
‘We saw her on Monday, she asked whether we had heard her news. She said her son and his partner had their first baby about two weeks ago. She was very excited about it. She had lots to look forward to in her life.’
Irish-born Mrs McConchie worked at Wootton Primary School, in Northamptonshire, before retiring several years ago.Her husband used to be a divisional director for Tesco and is now managing director of Lloyd Fraser, a warehousing and distribution firm he founded in 1987 at a former aerodrome near Lutterworth,  Leicestershire