Dead: The holidaymaker who is thought to have strangled his lover on board a Norfolk Broads pleasure cruiser was today named by locals as John Didier, pictured.
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This is the holidaymaker who is thought to have strangled his lover on board a Norfolk Broads pleasure cruiser.
John Didier, who has family links in the U.S. state of Arkansas but lived with his apparent victim in Surrey, worked for the National Health Service in an unspecified role.
He is believed to have killed the woman on board the boat, who was also today named as Annette Creegan, 49, from Mitcham, Surrey, before taking his own life several days later.
Investigation: John Didier, who has family links in the U.S. state of Arkansas but lived with his apparent victim in Surrey, worked for the National Health Service in an unspecified role.
Detectives are yet to reveal the identity of her 13-year-old daughter, who may have have been unaware that either adult was dead when she was found on board on Saturday.
Officers are said to have immediately telephoned local guest houses and hotels to check if they had booked in as they had found a 'lost' child, it emerged today.
But the bodies of the couple, who were both in their 40s, were later found in water near the boat on Sunday, which was moored in a secluded spot on the River Bure, near Wroxham.
Police are still trying to establish how long the girl had been on board the vessel after they today revealed she may have 'sat there traumatized for days'.
Det Supt Jes Fry, of the Norfolk and Suffolk Major Investigation Team, said: ‘We are building a time line of events that we will put together in a file for the inquest.
‘But I was trying to allay people's fears that she hadn't been in that situation for weeks or whatever.
‘She has given an account and we will build on that to establish a time line.
Clues: Detectives investigating the deaths of a couple on the Norfolk Broads found a purple sex toy, two tubes of lubricant gel and a blood-stained sheet packed into a carrier bag on their boat.
Mystery: Police guard the scene on the Norfolk Broads between Wroxham and Salhouse where the pleasure boat was found. Detectives are investigating whether a man strangled his girlfriend and dumped her body in the river before taking his own life several days later.
Theory: Police are investigating suggestions that a holidaymaker may have killed his girlfriend and dumped her body in the river before taking his own life several days later.
‘Obviously there are concerns from the public as to the welfare of this young girl. And that is our paramount concern.‘We are providing support for her and the welfare of her family.’
Jacqueline Brown, an employee at the 18th century Regency guest house in Neatishead, Norfolk, confirmed that officers had called her at 9pm on Saturday to ask if she had seen 'a couple'.
She said: 'They just said they had a lost child and they were looking for the parents who they thought might have checked into a local B & B.'
Det Supt Jes Fry refused to say what the girl had told officers about what happened on the boat.
Officers, who found a purple sex toy, two tubes of lubricant gel and a blood-stained sheet packed into a carrier bag on their boat, said the girl was being looked after by family in Norfolk.
According to The Sun, forensic officers scouring the hired boat for clues are understood to have also retrieved duct tape, cable ties, a computer hard drive, a laptop, screws, brackets and lengths of cable.
Some reports suggest the boat had been moored at the same spot for most of the week with the curtains closed and few signs of life on deck.
But others reported seeing the family enjoying a barbecue on board on Friday night.
Detective Superintendent Jes Fry, head of the Norfolk and Suffolk major investigations team, refused to comment on reports that the mother had been dead for several days.
But it is understood that the girl, who was found alone and unharmed on board the family’s rental boat, was cared for and fed throughout last week. It is not thought she was locked inside the boat.
One local rumour suggested that the man had left a note for the girl when he left the boat, instructing her to stay on board.
Police said in a statement: ‘Home Office forensic post-mortems showed that the woman had died before entering the water and it is likely that the cause of death was strangulation.
‘The man is believed to have died through drowning. His death is not being treated as suspicious.
Remote: Locals described the banks along the section of the River Bure as inaccessible.
‘We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.’
An ice cream seller said yesterday that he had seen the 38ft £1,000-a-week boat tied to a tree several times since the previous Sunday.
He became so worried that he approached the craft but said a man on board angrily waved him away, apparently wanting to be left alone.
The alarm about the boat was only raised when the hire company, Le Boat, realised it had not been returned as arranged on Saturday.
It was quickly found after a search that evening.
Yesterday the ice cream man, who has worked on the Broads for 23 years, said the boat had been in the same place for ‘at least seven or eight days’.
After seeing no movement when passing the craft at the remote spot between Salhouse Broad and Wroxham Broad, near Hoveton, he became so concerned that he went up to it to check everyone was well.
The 49-year-old said: ‘I went up and down the river a few times to get a good look at it and it always had its curtains and windows closed even in the middle of the day.
‘On Tuesday at about 5.30pm I decided I would go and see if everything was OK because I was concerned for their safety as they’d been in the same place for a long time.
'I was about eight feet away and shouted over. The man came through in a hurry, from the toilet area to the main section.
‘He shouted back through the curtain something like, “Go away. I don’t want anything”, and he waved me away with his hand. I saw the boat in the same position every day after that.’
Steve Daniels, owner of Fineway Launch Hire, said that many passers-by had spotted the boat but didn’t think it was unusual.
He said: ‘It is a popular spot for fishing at this time of year and people often fish into the night then sometimes sleep in during the day.’
Last night a spokesman for Le Boat said the family had hired craft through them for Norfolk Broads holidays on ‘several’ previous occasions.
Culled from The Daily Mail UK.
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