Police give update after deaths of four members of the same family | UK News

Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths of four members of the same family, it’s been confirmed.

Two young girls, a 36-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, named as Bartlomiej Kuczynski, were found dead at a house in Costessey, just outside Norwich in Norfolk.

Detective Chief Inspector Chris Burgess said: ‘We’ve spoken to witnesses and neighbours, carried out house-to-house inquiries, examined local CCTV and completed initial scene investigation.

‘As a result of this, we’re not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.’

Officers discovered the bodies shortly after a tipoff from neighbours at around 7am on Friday.

A man called 999 from the property in Allan Bedford Crescent an hour before, but police were not dispatched at that point.

Norfolk Constabulary referred itself to police watchdog, the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), on Saturday as a result.

It follows another referral on Friday over police contact about a missing person enquiry at the same address last month.

Police said the man, Mr Kuczynski, an engineer, lived at the address with his two daughters, but the woman was visiting and lived elsewhere.

All four were found with injuries. A post-mortem of the adults is due to take place today, while children will be formally identified on Wednesday.

The identities of the woman and children won’t be released until the formal identifications, said the force.

Nina Crisan, whose son knew the older girl, named locally as Jasmin and believed to be 12, described her as a ‘very, very sweet girl’.

‘She had very calm and cool energy, as my son would say,’ she told Sky News. ‘She was just a lovely, lovely, lovely kid.’

Ms Crisan said the deaths came as an ‘absolute shock and devastation’ to the ‘close community’.

A cordon remains in place police continue investigating.

In regards to the second IOPC referral, DCI Burgess said yesterday: ‘A second referral has been made to the IOPC today following the identification of a 99 call made yesterday morning at 6am by a man at the address an police resources were not deployed.

‘The IOPC will assess the circumstances of the call and determine the appropriate level of investigation required.

‘As a result, no further information relating to the circumstances of this call will be released at this time.’

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper believes the police not responding to the initial 999 call on Friday, is a symptom of a ‘wider issue’ with the response to emergency calls.

The labour MP told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme today: ‘This is deeply troubling. It is an awful case. Rightly this case has now been referred for investigation because there does appear to have been a 999 call that was wasn’t responded to.

‘Labour would put domestic abuse specialists into 999 control centres so that you have got that expertise to deal with difficult cases.

‘We don’t know whether that would have made any difference or have applied in this case and there needs to be an investigation, but I do think there is a wider issue about making sure we have the proper response to these kinds of awful cases.’

Meanwhile, the Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, said local clergy were offering support in the communities they serve and would be opening churches over the weekend for those who wish to pay tribute.

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