Police under fire for ignoring threat before gruesome murder

Local police in Essex, Britain, came under fire after they ignored 100 text messages by a man threatening to kill his ex-partner.

He shot the woman and their 2-year-old dead in their home on Sunday, according to Daily Mail Online.

The killer also shoved his shotgun into the mouth of her 10-year-old daughter, who saved her life by climbing through the window onto the kitchen roof, according to the report.

The report said that the 38-year-old woman named Chrissie Chambers handed police menacing text messages from David Oakes.

Chambers, 38, formally reported to local police that he repeatedly threatened to kill her during a bitter row over access to their daughter.

Oakes was under a non-molestation order that prevented him from coming within 100 yards of her.

“She gave police over 100 text messages but they never took her seriously,” Stuart Flitt, 26, who is a half brother to Chelsea, was quoted as saying.

He had been staying round her home for her own safety, he added.

Officers had also been called to the house a number of times over the past two years, according to the report.

Citing a close friend of the family, the report said the police said to her “We cannot do anything until something happens to you.”

Oakes has been described as an “abusive, jealous woman hater.” He committed the crime hours before a court appearance over the custody of the murdered daughter.

The former couple split seven weeks ago.

The man is in hospital with injuries after turning the gun on himself at the end of a two-hour stand-off.

(Herald Online)