Deaths of mother and disabled eight year-old daughter treated as murder-suicide
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The bodies of a woman found dead at her home alongside her disabled eight-year-old daughter is being treated as a murder-suicide, The Independent understands.
Police have said they are not actively looking for anyone else in connection with their deaths, with neighbours describing the mother as “loving and devoted”.
They were discovered by police officers shortly after 10.30am on Monday at a house on South Radford Street in Salford, after responding to reports of concern for their welfare.
They have not been formally identified by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) but a neighbour named them as Martina and her daughter Elani, and said they had been living at the address for around two years.
The neighbour, who did not want to give her name, said the mother did not work and spent most of her time at home looking after her daughter.
“I didn’t see that much of her, I was at work all day,” the neighbour said. “All I could say was she was a loving and devoted mother to the little girl.
“Elani was severely disabled and hugely dependant on her mum. She had a walking frame and she would walk with her mum up and down the street outside their house.
“A bus would come to take the girl to a special school each day.
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