Family of missing EastEnders actress Sian Blake demand answers over police probe

The boyfriend of the missing ex-EastEnders actor Sian Blake may have fled to Ghana, it has been reported, after police revealed they had found three bodies in the garden of Blake’s home.

43-year-old Sian Blake and her two young sons had not been seen since the 13th of November, Zachary was eight years of age and Amon was four.

Her partner Arthur Simpson-Kent was also interviewed at the house on December 16 – he has not been seen since and police are appealing for information over his whereabouts.

Detective Superintendent Paul Monk, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command said: “Sadly, as part of a thorough forensic search we are carrying out at the family’s home in Erith, we recovered three bodies from the garden of the property”.

SIAN BLAKE’S family are demanding answers from police over how long it took to find the bodies of her and her children.

Ms Blake and her sons were formally reported missing by her family the same day. “I used to see her walking up and down and we would greet each other”, she said. We are not close but she was a very happy woman.

She added: “I never met the boys”.

The Yard said its internal investigations department was examining the timeline of the police inquiry involving local officers in Bexley.

Simpson-Kent is a light-skinned black man who is 6ft 2in tall.

She and her children were last seen in Waltham Forest, east London, on December 13, and her silver-beige Renault Scenic was found in Calvert Avenue in Bethnal Green, east London, on January 3, but it is not known who parked it there.

He has not been seen since Wednesday, December 16 – when he spoke to police.

Simpson-Kent, a hairdresser in the fashion industry, was classed as a “high-risk missing person” when police could not get hold of him. “I can’t believe someone would do this to them, to a family, it’s terrible”.

Miss Blake had motor neurone disease – a fatal, rapidly progressing disease that affects the brain and spinal cord – and was reportedly looking “very frail” before she vanished.

One neighbour whose garden back onto where the bodies was found, said: “We know them as neighbours but not much more than that: Nice people, nice children”. Scotland Yard would not elaborate on how many more times police searched the house but it was only after Christmas when Bexley police classified Blake and her children as high-risk missing persons.

She was on the show for 56 episodes, reportedly quitting in 1997 because of hostility from viewers towards her manipulative character.

Ms Blake also appeared in episodes of The Bill, Casualty, Doctors and Skins, and was the voice of Yugiri in 2015 video game Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward.

Scotland Yard today announced it was referring the initial missing persons inquiry to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.