Twin girls, three-year-old sister, mother and grandmother found dead in suburban Perth home
TWIN two-year-old girls, their three-year-old sister and their mother and grandmother were those found dead in a Perth home yesterday afternoon, WA Police has confirmed.
A man in his 20s surrendered himself at a regional WA police station before officers visited a home on Coode Street in the suburb of Bedford.
When police entered, they discovered the bodies of two women and three young children. Police refused to say what the man told them or how he was known to the victims.
WA Police told news.com.au the man was in custody and assisting policy with their inquiries. No charges had been laid against him as of this morning.
Distraught neighbours told reporters the family had not been seen in recent days and the street, normally filled with the laughter of the three girls, had been eerily quiet.
Next-door-neighbour Richard Fairbrother told the ABC he’d been away and hadn’t seen the family for more than a week.
“We’ve just been on a holiday and came back yesterday (Saturday) to silence in the street,” Mr Fairbrother said.
“We noticed that the house next door was pretty quiet, which was unusual, being that they had the young kids.
“We had some friends staying here who have also mentioned that they didn’t see or hear anybody next door for the week that we were away.”
Mr Fairbrother said the three children played in the front and back yards so often he’d even warned his visitors about the noise.
“We had mentioned to our friends that were staying that there was likely to be some noise from the kids next door, and they were a little surprised that there wasn’t noise from the kids next door,” he said.
“We’d been around to their house once or twice, and vice versa. It’s just terrible to hear, terrible.”
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