Maja and Olga Galikowska. Photo: Facebook
Police have said they are not looking for anyone else in relation to the killings, indicating that mother Marta Gawlikowska may have stabbed her children and then turned the knife on herself.
“It is becoming clearer that we are dealing with a very tragic incident,” commented Chief Superintendent Martin Evans of the Staffordshire Police, as cited by local paper The Sentinel.
The released man is understood to have been the ex-partner of Marta Gawlikowska. He had been arrested outside the latter's house on Sunday night, in the Stanfield district of Stoke-on-Trent.
Children Maja and Olga were aged 5 and 1 at the time of their deaths.
Her daughter Maja (aged 5) attended a local school. Her second daughter, Olga, was one year old at the time of her death. - See more at: http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/184184,Polish-mother-and-2-children-brutally-murdered-in-UK#sthash.3IrMVOAp.dpuf
Meanwhile, a 30-year-old neighbour has described arriving at the crime scene.
“When I got to the house I saw a woman on the phone to the police, saying that they were all dead, that they'd all been stabbed.
“While she was on the phone the man came out of the house and got into his car. The woman tried to stop him leaving, saying he needed to stay and wait for the police, but he wouldn't stop.
“I asked her if he'd done it because, if he had, I would have tried to stop him, but she told me he couldn't have done it because he'd arrived at the house after her. Both the woman and the man were hysterical.”
Earlier that day, neighbours had heard rowing at the house.
Chief Superintendent Martin Evans of the Staffordshire Police has said that the investigation is ongoing.
Marta Galikowska is understood to have moved to the UK from the city of Przemysl, south east Poland, in 2010.
The released man is receiving psychological help from specialists in the wake of deaths. (nh)
Source: stokesentinel.co.uk