Forensic investigators cover up the outside of the flat
London, Tuesday 24th November, 2009. Sad news for a Kenyan family in London. A four-year-old boy was stabbed to death by his father at their home in Southwark last night. The man’s wife had her throat slashed but their 17-month-old girl was left unharmed in the horrific attack. The husband is understood to have stabbed himself repeatedly and was seriously ill in hospital. The woman, 28, was not seriously hurt. She and her daughter were taken to hospital and released. The 31-year-old father is under guard at a south London hospital. His 28-year-old wife suffered a stab wound to the neck but has been discharged.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the man, whose condition is described as “serious”, remains under guard in hospital. The couple were named locally as Paul Deya and Jacqueline Otieno and their four-year-old son as Wilson. Paul Deya is a son of brother of Arch Bishop Deya. Scotland Yard said police were called to the flat in Lynton Road on the Lynton Estate, Bermondsey, at 6.15pm. The investigation was being carried out by the Child Abuse Command. A spokesman said: “We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this.” Witnesses told how scores of police cars raced to the scene. Rita Dixon, 71, said she knew the family: “They were a lovely family. Happy-go-lucky, and such a nice couple. “I was in my flat yesterday when all of a sudden police came from nowhere. I saw the father coming out on a stretcher.
“They had to stop halfway down the stairs to resuscitate him. The mother was in an ambulance holding the baby.” Detectives are investigating reports that Mrs Otieno had asked her husband for a separation before he launched the attack. Police are not believed to have been called to the family’s flat before. Forensic science teams were today carrying out investigations at the flat. Mark O’Connor, 42, who runs nearby pub The Finish, said paramedics carried an unconscious, naked man from the flat before spending 40 minutes trying to revive him in the street. He said: “I could see a black man being moved down the stairs. He was naked and I could see a neck wound and various other wounds. It was quite gruesome. He was bleeding very, very badly.” Mrs Dixon’s daughter Joan, 39, said she heard screaming just before police were called. She added: “Everyone thought they were happy. How could a person do that to a child? It is diabolical.” Ms Dixon said the family had moved onto the estate 18 months ago. Simon Hughes, Lib-Dem MP for the area, who lives a short distance away, said: “There will be huge shock and horror throughout the community.” Incidents of children being killed are rare. Last year there were six cases of children below the age of 12 being killed in London, only two were stabbed.
Source-Misterseed
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