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| Didcot killings: Post-mortem test results due on suspect Jed Allen | Didcot killings: Post-mortem test results due on suspect Jed Allen |
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| Police are expecting to find out later how a triple-murder suspect, whose body was found in woodland, died. | Police are expecting to find out later how a triple-murder suspect, whose body was found in woodland, died. |
| The body of Jed Allen, 21, was discovered in a wooded area of Oxford on Monday after his half-sister, mother and her partner had been killed. | The body of Jed Allen, 21, was discovered in a wooded area of Oxford on Monday after his half-sister, mother and her partner had been killed. |
| Janet Jordon, 48, Philip Howard, 44, and Derrin Jordon, aged six, were found stabbed to death in Didcot on Saturday. | Janet Jordon, 48, Philip Howard, 44, and Derrin Jordon, aged six, were found stabbed to death in Didcot on Saturday. |
| Detectives are yet to formally identify the body found in Marston Ferry Road, but are satisfied it is Allen. | Detectives are yet to formally identify the body found in Marston Ferry Road, but are satisfied it is Allen. |
| Results from a post-mortem examination are expected later. | Results from a post-mortem examination are expected later. |
| Investigations will now turn to the circumstances of the killings at the house in Vicarage Road that prompted the hunt for Allen across Oxfordshire. | Investigations will now turn to the circumstances of the killings at the house in Vicarage Road that prompted the hunt for Allen across Oxfordshire. |
| Following the discovery of the bodies at 20:20 BST, Thames Valley Police confirmed the 21-year-old was their prime suspect and appealed to the public to help trace him. | Following the discovery of the bodies at 20:20 BST, Thames Valley Police confirmed the 21-year-old was their prime suspect and appealed to the public to help trace him. |
| More than 100 police, including specialist search officers, were deployed to search Oxford University Parks where Allen worked as a groundsman. | More than 100 police, including specialist search officers, were deployed to search Oxford University Parks where Allen worked as a groundsman. |
| Detectives believed he had arrived in Oxford by train from Didcot at 17:45 on Saturday. | Detectives believed he had arrived in Oxford by train from Didcot at 17:45 on Saturday. |
| His body was found after a 30-hour manhunt by two members of the public just before 17:00 on Monday. | His body was found after a 30-hour manhunt by two members of the public just before 17:00 on Monday. |
| Police have reopened Vicarage Road in Didcot, but a cordon remains in place around the crime scene where officers are expected to remain until Thursday. |