Topic author: shy
Subject: Girl, three, found dead in house
Posted on: 02 July 2006 4:41:26 PM
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A 50-year-old man is being questioned by police after a three-year-old girl was found dead in a north London house.
Police found the youngster's body in a house in Priory Road, Crouch End on Friday. She had suffered head injuries.

Officers were alerted by a member of the public who came across a distressed nine-year-old boy in the street.

A 50-year-old man found at the scene was taken to hospital suffering injuries to his wrist. He has been arrested, said a Met Police spokesman.

A post mortem examination carried out at Hornsey Mortuary gave the cause of the toddler's death as severe head injuries.

The nine-year-old boy was also injured and was taken to a north London hospital suffering from neck wounds, which are not believed to be serious.

Officers are awaiting a formal identification of the three-year-old.