Sunday 14 April 2013

"The £600,000 pebble-dashed home remained cordoned off"

MBK has spotted another one of those crime reports written by an estate agent in the Daily Mail:

A laboratory technician was alleged to have killed her two young daughters with toxic concoction before taking her own life in a triple death tragedy.

The mother, named locally as Heena Solanki, is understood to have first killed her two daughters Jasmine, aged nine years, and Prisha, aged four years, and then herself at their smart semi-detached home. The children's father is believed to have made the grim discovery of the trio's bodies.

Moments after paramedics and police arrived, neighbours said they to close all their doors and windows, saying that there had been a 'chemical incident' at the house.

Today detectives from the Metropolitan Police's Homicide and Serious Crime and Command were examining the five-bedroom house. A spokesman for the police said detectives were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths, which they said were being treated as 'unexplained.'

Today a number of house windows were wide open for ventilation despite the rain and cool temperatures. The £600,000 pebble-dashed home remained cordoned off.


What a tragedy eh? They had everything to live for - their smart semi-detached home had five bedrooms and was worth £600,000. Who knows what it would have been worth if it hadn't been pebble-dashed, that can knock off a tenth of the value, you know.

5 comments:

JuliaM said...

Maybe it was the pressure of living with the pebble dashing that did it?

Anonymous said...

Apropos of nothing I'm guessing Hydrogen Sulfide. It's relatively common so no doubt we'll have a moral panic in the works.

Bayard said...

"Who knows what it would have been worth if it hadn't been pebble-dashed, that can knock off a tenth of the value, you know."

Ruislip => Metroland => lingering Arts and Crafts influence => possibility of the house being built with pebbledash?

For reducing the value of a house, pebbledash doesn't really compare with having a parent killing their children and committing suicide in it.

Fierce Rabbit said...

Yet no photo of the actual house...odd.

Mark Wadsworth said...

JM, unusual cause of death but we can't rule it out.

RA, you win today's award for drawing precise conclusions from no evidence whatsoever. That said, you'll probably end up being right. Have you tipped off the police yet?

B, unlikely but possible. That's why we need a photo so that we can see the houses next to it as well.

FR, that's because they are investigating whether the house was originally pebble dashed or not and getting a few estate agents round to take some proper photos while the sun is shining so nicely, and maybe tidy up the front garden a bit first, you know, give it some "kerb appeal".