Police have officially identified the four family members who were stabbed to death in a terraced house in south-east London.
Denton Burke, 58, and his partner, Jamaica-born NHS worker Dolet Hill, 64, were both killed at their home in Delaford Road, Bermondsey, on Monday.
Hill’s daughter, Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, also known as Rachquel, who lived in Kennington, and Ofori-Akuffo’s daughter, Samantha Drummonds, 27, who lived in Forest Hill, also died. A 28-year-old man from Lewisham, who is suspected of carrying out the fatal attack, is in hospital in a stable condition.
He was Tasered by Metropolitan Police officers before his arrest.
A friend of Drummonds told reporters that she had temporarily moved into the house in Bermondsey while building work was carried out at her own flat.
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