Four bodies found in Hampshire house

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Four bodies found in Hampshire house
Man, woman and two young children found dead at home in Fordingbridge
after suspected domestic dispute



guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 27 July 2010 08.24 BST
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The bodies of a man, a woman and two young children have been found in
a house in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, police have confirmed .

The discovery was made at around 11.20am at a house in Provost Street
by the children's grandmother. The deaths are thought to be the result
of a domestic dispute that culminated in murders and a suicide.

The family were named locally as Andrew and Vicki Case and their
daughters, Phoebe, two, and Nereya, one.

Andrew Case and daughters Phoebe and Nereya. Photograph: Solent News
& Photo Agency A neighbour, Alayna Brooks, 53, went to the house when
the bodies were found. Brooks said the grandmother had come out of the
house screaming: "All my babies are dead!" Entering the house, Brooks
found the mother, in her 30s, dead in the dining room with a plastic
bag over her head.

She then went upstairs and found the girls dead on a bed. Both
children and the woman had received stab wounds. The man was found
hanged.

The emergency services were called after neighbours heard screams,
according to local reports.

Fordingbridge lies on the western edge of the New Forest. The house is
set back from terraced and detached homes in the street. The mayor of
Fordingbridge, Councillor Malcolm Connolly, told the local Daily Echo
newspaper: "The loss of young lives is always tragic and it leads to
the question why something like this happens. It's a small town. These
people will have been known to many and it will have a major impact on
the lives of residents."

Acting Superintendent Gary Cooper, of Hampshire police, confirmed that
it was a member of the family who had found the bodies. "We believe it
was a relative who came to the address this morning," he said. "On
entering … they found four people dead. The scene is still being
examined as it is a very recent incident. It is a very unusual
occurrence, but something we are investigating with scenes-of-crime
officers and the major crime branch."

Brooks said she knew of the family, who had just come back from a
holiday in Weymouth: "They were so loved up … In fact, if I had a
marriage, I would have loved their marriage – they just loved each
other." She described the girls as gorgeous.

Another neighbour, Jeremy Pentecost, 27, said he had run out of his
house, which overlooks the property where the families were
discovered. "I didn't go into the house. Someone stopped me going in,
and I'm glad they did, to be honest. I didn't want to see that. They
seemed a nice couple, and I joked with him sometimes outside."

A Hampshire police spokeswoman confirmed that the bodies were removed
from the house last night and postmortems would take place on the
adults today.

The spokeswoman would not confirm or deny that police were looking for
anyone in connection with the deaths.





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