Father and three children killed in explosion..........

[tiredemma]

saw it this morning on news, mother was working nights in care hime, imagine coming home from work to find your whole family gone.

www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1214861,00.html

This is terrible.I heard it on gmtv this morning.I think what makes it worse is the fact that its not an accident.Someone did this to the poor family .what must the poor wife/mother be going through.

I had a very worrying time this morning as my friend, her dh and their 3 children live in that street and I couldn't find on the news what number house it happened too.

I managed to contact them and they are OK thankfully, thier son went to beavers with one of the children killed :(

Horrible, horrible, horrible. I was shaking even after I spoke to them and knew it wasn;t them.

I thought it was a gas leak?

It's being treated as suspicious a man has been arrested.

Not far from me and absolutley dreadful. The poor mum

Glad your friends are OK Julie. The pictures of the back of the house are horrific and I'm surprised that there weren't injuries in the adjoining house.

Really scary - I'm always worry when I'm at work that something will happen at night and I won't be there to do anything.

They are also now concerned for another youngster (an 18 year-old) who's not been seen since the explosion

It wasn't the kids' dad who was arrested by any chance?

Apparently not Jan - well according to the local news. Must admit though that was the first thing I thought.

BBc news web site says police say its not the father that they arrested..

I just can't think of another reason for it - unless it was a horrible accident?

Hideous.

wonder what was the cause of the blast?

how

Apparantly it was the exboyfriend of the 16 year old. So bloody awful, that poor mother tears

WCL - you mean the bloke whose been arrested is her ex b/f. Local news said he's in his 30's

Bit of an update \link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4795036.stm\here}

The daughter's ex? And she had only just recently moved in with them according to earlier reports. There are so many ways this is the most horrible thing to happen to a family - their poor mother (and father)

This is not far from me too.

It was awful listening to a local resident on the local radio news describing how the children were seen at the window and no-one could get to them.

The press have been hounding everyone in the area! For goodness sake leave them alone.

They even called the emergency services when they couldn't get through on the admin number!!

At least they have the person who did this despicable thing. When certain facts come out about him there will be uproar. Don't really want to say what as I probably shouldn;t have been told and certain things have to be kept quiet so as not to prejudice the legal case but rest assured, he is not a nice man.

whats happening with this now?

i dont understand how someone would have been videotaping it BEFORE the explosion?

it was on someones CCTV for their driveway, wasnt it?

cctv it says jampots

sorry

That poor mother, not only has she lost her family, but all of her memories of them too. No photos, no momentoes. She can't even go home and sleep in her own bed its too awful to loose everything, home family and all your possessions. Its my worst nightmare.

They still have the chap in custody - he is apparently, as WCL says, the ex boyfriend of the 16 year old.

Rumours abound in the town (my mum lives there) - agree with Julie that he's not a nice bloke.

The poor family

\link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4803542.stm\He's been charged}