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09th Jan 2016

Suspect In Sian Blake Murder Case Arrested In Ghana

This story is breaking.

Cathy Donohue

The police manhunt launched to find Arthur Simpson-Kent, boyfriend of murdered Sian Blake, is over after the 48-year-old was arrested in Ghana today.

An Interpol alert for Simpson-Kent was put out on Thursday and according to The UK Independenthe was found in a town named Takoradi today.

It is thought that he will spend the night in Interpol custody before he is escorted on a flight back to England where Scotland Yard detectives will question him.

The bodies of Sian Blake and her two children with Simpson-Kent, Zachary (8) and Amon (4), were found in the back garden of the family home on Tuesday.

A post-mortem showed they died from head and neck injuries.

Main image via Metropolitan Police