Police have named the nine-year-old girl, whose strangled body was found in a lorry cab, as Stacey Lawrence.
Reports have now said Stacey may have been killed by her mother’s long-term boyfriend Darren Walker, 40, who was found hanged nearby, with detectives treating the incident as murder-suicide.
Police found Stacey in a lorry park on the A605 near Warmington on Saturday. She had been on a trip making deliveries to Spar stores with Mr Walker on Friday.
Det Ch Insp Tricia Kirk: 'At the moment, we are treating it as a murder-suicide. We believe the little girl was murdered and the man then committed suicide.”
Police had been alerted when the truck’s owner reported it missing. Today the route the lorry took has been released by detectives in a bid to find witnesses. Police said it left its depot in Willenhall in the West Midlands, during the early hours of Friday.
From there it went straight to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where it made deliveries.
On its return towards the Midlands, the lorry stopped near Peterborough at about 1500 BST before arriving at the lay-by in Warmington, near the Cambridgeshire border, at about 1535 BST.
Ms Kirk added: 'It will have spent a great deal of time in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire during daylight hours, particularly on the A47, so I'm hopeful we will get some good information about its movements during the day.'
Reports have now said Stacey may have been killed by her mother’s long-term boyfriend Darren Walker, 40, who was found hanged nearby, with detectives treating the incident as murder-suicide.
Police found Stacey in a lorry park on the A605 near Warmington on Saturday. She had been on a trip making deliveries to Spar stores with Mr Walker on Friday.
Det Ch Insp Tricia Kirk: 'At the moment, we are treating it as a murder-suicide. We believe the little girl was murdered and the man then committed suicide.”
Police had been alerted when the truck’s owner reported it missing. Today the route the lorry took has been released by detectives in a bid to find witnesses. Police said it left its depot in Willenhall in the West Midlands, during the early hours of Friday.
From there it went straight to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where it made deliveries.
On its return towards the Midlands, the lorry stopped near Peterborough at about 1500 BST before arriving at the lay-by in Warmington, near the Cambridgeshire border, at about 1535 BST.
Ms Kirk added: 'It will have spent a great deal of time in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire during daylight hours, particularly on the A47, so I'm hopeful we will get some good information about its movements during the day.'
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