A 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman and her sons aged five and seven months have been found dead in a flat in north London, in an apparent murder-suicide.
Her husband, an accountant, returned home to find his wife had murdered their two sons and then committed suicide.
The 33-year-old woman, understood to be Sri Lankan, killed her boys, aged five and seven months, before committing suicide, police believe.
Scotland Yard said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
Neighbours said the couple who lived at the upstairs flat in Harrow, North London, were Sakthivel Vageswaran, 36, and his wife Jeyavani Vageswaran, 33.
Mr Vageswaran runs his own firm, Vaasi Accountancy, from the address in Woodgrange Close.
Tashma Brown, 34, who lives next door, said of Mrs Vageswaran: “She was a person you didn’t see often. There was always shouting and arguing, three or four times in a month sometimes.
“Most of the time when they argued he would come outside to cool down.”
Ms Brown said she last heard the couple arguing the week before Christmas and also heard the woman getting upset on Tuesday or Wednesday about the baby crying in the house.
“She was shouting but it was in her own language. She sounded upset,” Ms Brown said.
She added that she rarely saw the family outside.
“As a mum with a child, I would only see her when she came out with her kids. I would never see her with the kids in the park walking around.”
Councillor Reg Colwill, who represents Kenton ward, said: “I think everybody is the same, they are shocked at what’s happened.
“If it’s accurate that the woman took her own life she must have been at her wits’ end and didn’t ask for help, or didn’t get the help she asked for. It’s two young children, it’s very sad.”
The woman and two boys were pronounced dead at the scene when paramedics were called at 5.20pm on Thursday. Next of kin have been informed.
Leslie Gotts, who has lived in Woodgrange Close for 18 years, said the family had lived in the first floor flat for about a year.
Mr Gotts, 70, said: “I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing. You freeze. It’s a quiet road, a very mixed community.
“I think I only saw her once. She didn’t look very unhappy to me.”
The woman and two boys were pronounced dead at the scene when paramedics were called at 5.20pm on Thursday. Next of kin have been informed.
Mr Sakthivel, who was born in northern Sri Lanka, moved to the UK around ten years ago and studied at London’s South Bank University. He has spent the past three years running a firm called Vaasi Accountancy. – The Telegraph
