Coastguard officers helped recover the bodies of Jayaprakash Rao Chiti, a doctor, and his two-year-old son from the River Orwell in Suffolk after they plunged from the Orwell Bridge.

Police officers later broke into Chiti’s home in nearby Ipswich and found his wife Anupama Damera lying dead from multiple stab wounds.

The couple’s other son, aged 11, was found asleep in his bedroom. Post mortems on all three are being carried out.