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Hanged father Aram Aziz killed Leicester family | |
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A father killed his ex-partner and their two young children in a Leicester flat before hanging himself in a county park, a coroner has ruled. | |
The inquest heard Aram Aziz, 32, unlawfully killed Joy Small, 24, their son Aubarr, two, and three-year-old daughter Chanara in Leicester. | |
Their bodies were found in her flat in Mowmacre on 12 February last year. | |
Aziz was found hanged from a birdwatching hut at Watermead Country Park in Leicestershire the day before. | |
At the first hearing, Coroner Catherine Mason, at Leicester Coroner's Court, ruled that Aziz had committed suicide. | |
She was told the father-of-two had left a note by his body. | |
The note said: "So I began by killing Joy and then killing the children by Aubarr and then Chanara and finally myself." | |
'Vulnerable' family | |
At the second inquest, also at Leicester Town Hall Square, Mrs Mason recorded unlawful killings verdicts for Ms Small, Aubarr and Chanara. | |
Mrs Mason heard there were missed opportunities in the way agencies dealt with the "vulnerable" family of Jersey Road in Leicester. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found that Leicestershire Police had contact with the family on at least eight occasions between 2006 and 2010. | |
The investigation focused on police handling of four of those incidents in 2010. | |
The IPCC said that while the investigation found no failings amounting to misconduct, it did identify the need for learning by some individual officers in relation to domestic abuse. | |
IPCC Commissioner Amerdeep Somal said: "Some appropriate steps were taken by police to help Joy Small at different times. This included their proactive actions to install an alarm at her address. | |
"However some incidents could have been handled and recorded better. | |
"The high risk assessment rightly applied to Ms Small by officers should have meant her being referred to an independent domestic violence advisor, but... this did not happen." |