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Updated 2.05pm
POLICE IN LONDON have found three bodies in the search for former EastEnders actor Sian Blake and her two children and partner.
This afternoon, during a search carried out at her home address, three bodies were recovered. What was a missing persons’ inquiry is now being treated as a murder investigation.
Sian Blake was last seen on Sunday 13 December when she visited family in the Leyton area in the north of London.
Also missing are her partner, Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, and her two children Bilal Kent-Blake, 8, and Amon Ben George Kent-Blake, 4.
Blake, 43, played Frankie Pierre on the soap between 1996 and 1997.
Detective Superintendent Paul Monk, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command said:
Sadly, as part of a thorough forensic search we are carrying out at the family’s home in Erith, we recovered three bodies from the garden of the property.
As yet, we have not formally identified the bodies but this is of course a significant development and Sian’s family have been informed.
This continues to be a fast moving investigation and our thoughts are with Sian’s family at this time.
We continue to appeal for any information that could help us trace Sian’s partner Arthur Simpson-Kent. If anyone has any information about where he is or his movements since 16 December then please get in touch with us.
“I would also like to ask anyone who may have seen Sian and her children, or who may have information about their movements since the last confirmed sighting on 13 December, to call us,” he added.
Earlier it emerged that the investigation was being treated as a high-risk missing persons’ inquiry, with the Homicide and Major Crime Command (HMCC) now leading the investigation.
Officers are particularly concerned for the welfare of Simpson-Kent who has not been seen since Wednesday 16 December after officers spoke to him at the family home in Erith, an area of southeast London.
Blake’s Renault Scenic was found parked in Bethnal Green two days ago on 3 January, although it is not known why the vehicle was parked there or by whom.
Anyone with any information about their whereabouts is asked to contact the Metropolitan Police in London.
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry
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Is Michael Healy-Ray really that stupid ,,,,, Looks like the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree !!!!!
yes they are , and the very ones, that has there bread buttered by him , i heard , that these guys run, co, Kerry ,if your not with, them your out, and stay out ?. local Mafioso, i here say .big fish in small ponds .
How on earth did that amadan Healy Rae get elected , are people in constituency really that thick????
maybe we could put the dog into the dail instead of micheal.
As a farmer said to me ‘why should I indicate ,sure everybody knows where I’m going .’ The rural attitude to visitors/tourists is that they should deposit their money at the county boundary and not annoy the natives with demands for service, unspoilt countryside etc. It takes a Healy-Rae to actually come out and say this ; tell us more Michael.
Michael Healy Rae your ignorance knows absolutely no bounds!!
Michael Healy Rae is supported by the plain people of Kerry – crap goes in, crap comes out.
It’s bloody obvious Micheal Healy Rae is a man that can smell money a mile away. He must be doing a reality tv show soon and needs the cash for the phone and text votes. This is the Td who cut the grass of developers houses in my estate only last summer after he was elected. He even had his ‘vote no1′ stickers still on his van with his picture so there was no denying it was him. My ghost estate is in north cork so he drove a bit from Kerry to help the developer who is living it up in the uk!
I live in the country, and I know my way around. I have to say, country driving, particularly people over a certain age and in a certain profession, is shocking bad. No indicating, lucky if there’s one working brake light on the car. If a trailer is being towed, good luck. Then you can actually see the driver looking everywhere but the road. I usually have a rant about this a few times a week, when I’m stuck behind some numpty who doesn’t indicate, no brake light on the trailer, thinks road signs are just decorations for the roadside. And that Healy-Rae lad is a bigger numpty for questioning the need for road signs.
It says much for his chosen career that he is able to function as a member of the Dail, most of the political class see their job as being ” gettin in then gettin as much as they can ” this applies to most countries so we shouldn’t feel superior, but we do have a very good class of gobshites.
In a lot of rural areas, the local yooves tend to take great delight in turning the signs. And a turned sign is defintely worse than no sign at all! Many’s the time I’ve headed off in the wrong direction thanks to a bit of late-night shenanigans.
No money in signs as they are put in by the NRA also the bank hopes to “return to sustainable profitability by 2014.” by robbing the less well off..
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