Triple Murder Suspect Being Extradited To UK

The man accused of murdering a former EastEnders actress and her two sons is returning to the UK today after being extradited from Ghana.

Metropolitan Police officers have been involved in escorting Arthur Simpson-Kent on a British Airways flight from Accra to the UK, Sky News has learned.

They arrived in Ghana on Tuesday following his arrest by local police.

The 48-year-old hairdresser is accused of killing Sian Blake and her two children, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four.

Their bodies were discovered in the garden of the family home in Erith, Kent in early January, some three weeks after they were reported missing.

All three were found to have died of head and neck injuries.

Simpson-Kent was interviewed by police when the three disappeared, before fleeing to Ghana.

He agreed to be extradited after the British High Commission submitted a 200-page deposition to the authorities there.

It included CCTV of Simpson-Kent at his home in London after the murders and details of ATM withdrawals.

He was also captured on CCTV arriving in Ghana.

Ms Blake had motor neurone disease - a fatal, rapidly progressing illness which affects the brain and spinal cord - and had reportedly been in a frail state before her disappearance.

She played soul singer Frankie in EastEnders in 1996, appearing in 56 episodes.