A DOCTOR murdered at home while hosting a children’s sleepover was a GP for the Royal Family.
Mum-of-three Hannah Terry, 45, was on the edge of the Sandringham Estate, Norfolk. Tonight husband Mark Cain, 45, was .
The doctor seemed “stressed” in the days before her suspected murder, pals said.
Friends, colleagues and neighbours have been left in shock after Hannah was found dead at her home in the early hours of Sunday.
Cain is due to appear at Norwich magistrates’ court tomorrow morning.
The Sun can reveal Dr Terry, who lived with her husband and three sons in a £830,000 property near the in Norfolk, was a GP for the Royal Family. Sources said and had been informed of her death.
Tonight, a friend said that in the days before she died Dr Terry had seemed “stressed” and “distracted” on the school run, which was “out of character”.
scrambled to the family home in Dersingham, just over a mile from Sandringham, at around 2.20am on Sunday after being alerted by paramedics.
Dr Terry was pronounced dead at the scene.
The detached property was sealed off on Monday, with police arriving in forensic suits.
The friend added: “They lived on one of the poshest streets in the village — and that’s saying something in an area as well-heeled as North Norfolk.”
A hugely experienced and much-loved , Dr Terry served in a pool of doctors who were regularly on call for members of the nearby.
She was believed to have treated senior royals, including Queen Camilla, while they stayed at the Sandringham Estate.
Dr Terry had worked at the Heacham GP surgery in West for nine years but left last summer to “spend more time with her young family”.
She later took up a role at the Grimston Medical Centre, in King’s Lynn, a practice which has served the royals for years.
In an announcement at the time, the surgery said that she would be working three days a week, and they were “excited to have her on board”.
It was closed on Monday “due to extremely difficult circumstances affecting our practice team”.
Patients, colleagues and locals left flowers on Monday, and paid tribute to the “kindest” and “wonderful” medic.
Clinical administrator Julie-Ann Rayner said: “I had the pleasure of working with her for a few years.
“She was an amazing doctor and an amazing person, really wonderful, really warm-hearted, she really cared about her family.
“It’s incredibly sad what’s happened, everybody’s completely shocked. I can’t stop thinking about her boys and what they must be going through.”
GP Pallavi Devulapalli, a local councillor, posted online: “Dr Hannah worked briefly with me at my former practice — intelligent, really pleasant, a lovely colleague. I am genuinely struggling to understand what happened.”
Local resident Charisma-Mai Ellis said: “She was my GP when I was younger and my mum’s GP for a long time.
“She was very softly-spoken and I remember her being so understanding and empathetic. She had all the time for you.”
“She shouldn’t be remembered for this – she should be remembered for being the kind, caring, powerful, bright woman she was.”
A poignant note left at the surgery by a patient read:
“Dr Hannah Terry our GP, we are all thinking of your family, your children, your friends and even more for all staff and colleagues at Grimston Medical Practice.
“You were the kindest to Alan and I.
“You never rushed us and you listened to both of us, nobody else will ever be able to replace a beautiful GP and person like you.
“Fly high Dr Terry, sleep well, Heaven has certainly gained an angel.”
Dr Terry also co-owned Norfolk Sky Aesthetics, a cosmetic treatment company which was set up in November 2024.
A neighbour said: “She was just a lovely human being with three gorgeous young children. Something’s obviously gone very badly wrong.
“I’m just out of words, we all are.”
Another who lived next door said: “I didn’t know anything until the police came. I very rarely saw them.
“The children were lovely.
“They used to kick their football into my garden and I’d throw it back to them, or they’d come and ask me if they could come in and look for it.”
Others said they could not comprehend something so shocking happening in their village. A local told The Sun: “You read about things like this happening in other places.
“But nothing like it ever happens this close to home.”
Another said: “Dersingham is the sort of place where if you forget to lock your car and leave it out all night, nothing will happen to it.”
Police said: “Police were called to a house in Fern Hill shortly after 2.20am on Sunday by the ambulance service.
“Sadly, a woman in her 40s was pronounced dead at the scene.
“A man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to King’s Lynn Police Investigation Centre. A cordon is still in place at the address while we continue to carry out enquiries.”
A post-mortem took place on Monday but the cause of death had yet to be established.
Specialist officers were supporting Dr Terry’s family, while investigators appealed for help.
Det Insp Alix Wright, from Norfolk and Suffolk Major Investigation Team, said: “We are in the very early stages of this investigation working to establish the exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s death.
“I’d ask anyone who believes they may have information that could help our investigation to please share this with us.”
