UK: husband held for murder of Indian nurse, 2 children in Northampton

A 52-year-old man, Saju, arrested on suspicion of the triple murders of an Indian nurse and her two young children discovered with serious injuries at their home in Northampton, eastern England, is continued to be questioned, the police said on Saturday.

Northamptonshire Police named the victims on Friday as 35-year-old Anju Asok and the two children as Jeeva Saju, aged 6, and Janvi Saju, aged 4, a family from Kerala who had been based in Kettering for some months.

Asok worked as a nurse in the orthopaedic department of the local Kettering General Hospital, which has paid tributes to its “committed and compassionate” staffer.

The nurse, originally from Viakom in the Kottayam district of Kerala, had been employed at the local hospital since last year.

Police officers entered her home on Thursday morning following an alarm being raised by friends and colleagues where she was found dead.

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The two children were rushed to hospital but also succumbed to their injuries.

The outcome of a forensic post-mortem examination is now awaited to establish the cause of the deaths.