Dad charged with murder of twelve-year-old daughter and wife

Police at the home of Jillu Nash, 44, and her daughter Louise, 12, after they were found murdered at the bungalow in Great Waldingfield (Picture: Suffolk Police)

A man has been charged with the murder of his wife and 12-year-old daughter who were found dead at their home in Suffolk.

The bodies of Louise Nash and her mum, Jillu Nash, 43,  were discovered at a property in Heath Estate, Great Waldingfield, Sudbury, on September 8.

A 46-year-old man was detained by officers at the scene and taken to hospital for treatment to serious injuries where he remained under police arrest.

Louise Nash, 12, was found dead in the bungalow alongside her mother Jillu (Picture: Facebook / East Anglia News Service)

Jillu and her daughter were found dead and forensics spent days searching the home (Picture: East Anglia News Service)

Police at the family home in Suffolk (Picture: East Anglia News Service)

Suffolk Police said he was transferred to Martlesham Police Investigation Centre for questioning on Saturday evening.

In an update on Sunday, the force said Peter Nash, of Heath Estate, Great Waldingfield, had been charged with two counts of murder and is due to appear before Ipswich Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

An inquest into the deaths, which opened on October 7, heard that the property was the home address of Jillu and Peter Nash who were husband and wife and lived at the property ‘with their 12-year-old daughter Louise who had severe learning difficulties’.

Police said a Home Office post-mortem examination concluded that Mrs Nash’s cause of death was pressure on the neck while her daughter’s cause of death was a stab wound to the abdomen.

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