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| Arthur Simpson-Kent admits murder of EastEnders actress Sian Blake and their two children | Arthur Simpson-Kent admits murder of EastEnders actress Sian Blake and their two children |
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| Arthur Simpson-Kent has admitted to murdering the ex-Eastenders actor Sian Blake and their two sons, the Old Bailey heard today. | |
| Mr Simpson-Kent, Ms Blake's partner, is now facing life behind bars after he pleaded guilty to three counts of murder over a ten-minute video link from Belmarsh prison. | |
| The bodies of 43-year-old Ms Blake and her sons Zachary, 8, and Amon, 4, were discovered in January buried in the garden of their family home in Erith, south east London. | |
| They went missing on 13 December last year and died as a result of head and neck injuries. | |
| Mr Simpson-Kent, a 49-year-old hairdresser, only spoke to say the word "guilty" as each of the three murder charges was put to him. | |
| Around five members of Ms Blake's family, including her mum Lyndall and sister Ava, were in court to hear the admission. | |
| Mr Simpson-Kent was arrested at Heathrow Airport after being extradited from Ghana, where he had fled to two weeks before his partner and children's bodies were found. | |
| The Independent Police Complaints Commission, the police watchdog, is investigating the Met over why it took more than three weeks to find the trio. | |
| Ms Blake played Frankie Pierre in 56 episodes of EastEnders between 1996 and 1997. She was suffering from motor neurone disease before she died. | |
| Additional reporting by PA |