Search for family murders suspect

4 May 2011 Last updated at 06:33 GMT Suspect Anxiang Du left a suicide note, Northamptonshire Police said A police search for a man in connection with the murders of a couple and their two daughters is continuing.

Anxiang Du, 52, is being sought in connection with the deaths of Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer Jifeng Ding and his family.

Mr Ding, his wife Helen Chui, and daughters Alice and Xing, were found stabbed in their home in Pioneer Close, Wootton, Northampton, on Sunday night.

Police said Mr Du, from Coventry, had left a suicide note.

Mr Du left a note to his family implying it was time to say goodbye.

He is understood to have been a business associate of Ms Chui dealing in herbal remedies.

Mr Du left his home in Coventry at 1030 BST on Friday to go to work in Birmingham but never returned.

He was last seen on 29 April in Birmingham City Centre, Pallasades Shopping Centre and was wearing a white baseball cap, brown waist-length coat, grey trousers, a blue woollen top and black leather shoes.

He was described by police as being of slim build with a bald patch.

Police said they were still looking for a murder weapon.

Jifeng Ding and Alice Ding died from stab wounds, police have revealed

Officers said the family, who are of Chinese descent, had suffered knife wounds.

Det Supt Glyn Timmins said: "The public should be cautious. The reason being is that, obviously having left a suicide note Mr Du had a particular state of mind.

"What I can say is that he's likely to be frightened, he's likely to be quite desperate and certainly when, and if, he sees this in the media he's certainly going to be very anxious and nervous.

"Therefore I think the prudent thing to do would be to assume that Mr Du should not be approached and that's a job for the police if and when he's sighted."

Police also want to trace a silver five-door Vauxhall Corsa, registration BG60 PMO, that was hired by one of the family members and was last seen on Friday.

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Mother not guilty of fire murders

22 February 2011 Last updated at 12:20 GMT Ms Adams denied starting the fire A woman has been found not guilty of murdering two of her children in a fire at her Derbyshire house.

Fiona Adams escaped with her baby son Kiernan but her daughter Niamh, five, and son Cayden, two, died in the blaze at Edale Way, in Buxton, last April.

The 24-year-old denied the charges and was found not guilty at Nottingham Crown Court.

She was also found not guilty of grievous bodily harm and arson with intent.

The prosecution claimed Ms Adams started the blaze deliberately to create a "drama" to get attention from her partner James Maynard, 28, who had cheated on her in the past.

Laundry basket

She jumped from a bedroom window on to a trampoline while holding her baby son.

Her other two children were found dead near the window ledge of the bedroom window.

The prosecution claimed she started the fire in a laundry basket and called a burns expert who stated injuries to her hands supported this.

But the defence said an eyewitness saw flames coming from the window from which she jumped and suggested this could have been how she burnt her hands.

Ms Adams told the court she heard the smoke alarm going off as she got ready for bed.

"I went straight out of my bedroom... It was just like an orange glow coming from downstairs," she said.

She told the jury she took Niamh and Cayden, who shared a bedroom, into her room because their windows were locked.

"I remember being stood at the window and then I opened the window.

"I just remember the smoke getting worse and worse. As the smoke got worse, the less I could see.

"They [Niamh and Cayden] were stood with me. When I turned back around, they weren't there any more."

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