 According to Kate , Farrar had moved out of the family home and spurned Green 's desire for an amicable separation . Kate stressed that she loved and respected her mother and that all of the children had had good relationships with her , but that she was angry at her father for upsetting her mother by leaving . Pressed , she acknowledged that her mother had begun to drink large quantities of alcohol . She denied that she had ever seen matches in the house and expressed surprise that Tim had not escaped by the same route she had , which was via a bedroom window onto the roof . 
