Inquests into the deaths of a police inspector from Melton Mowbray and the wife and child he is believed to have killed have been opened and adjourned by a coroner.

Toby Day is thought to have launched a frenzied attack on his primary school teacher wife Samantha and daughter Genevieve, six, before taking his own life at the family home.

The couple’s teenage children Kimberley, 15, and Adam, 13, were also injured in last Thursday’s incident, which came just days after Mr Day lost his job at Leicestershire Police.

Trevor Kirkman, coroner for Rutland and North Leicestershire, opened the inquests in Loughborough. A spokesman for the coroner said no witnesses were called and the hearing was adjourned pending further inquiries.

The inquests will be resumed next year on a date to be fixed.

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