A barely legible message scrawled on a shoebox lid and thrown from a bedroom window during the Chelsea siege encapsulated Mark Saunders’s confusion and despair. Written in black marker pen were the words: “I love my wife dearly xxx.” ...His wife was tipped to become a Queen’s Counsel soon and was spoken of in legal circles as a future judge in the Family Division. The Chambers legal directory said that he was noted for his “maturity, unflappability and lack of hesitation".