The killing of two peo­ple, a man and his com­mon-law wife, in Va­len­cia yes­ter­day brought the homi­cide count­for one day in the east to five.

Ear­li­er in the morn­ing Bar­ry Kari­math was found dead with his two tod­dlers in a Matu­ra pump­kin field. They were poi­soned and po­lice sus­pect it is a case of mur­der/sui­cide.Around 11 am, res­i­dents of Va­len­cia Old Road, Va­len­cia, heard gun­shots near an aban­doned veg­etable stall in the area and saw a blue car with three male oc­cu­pants speed­ing away.

The vic­tims, Tris­tan Proud­foot, of Mark Trace, Va­len­cia, and Ner­is­sa Phillip, 21, were found dead in the shed.Phillip of south had been liv­ing with Proud­foot. She had gun­shot wounds to her head and right hand and Proud­foot, his head and chest.Po­lice be­lieve the mur­ders stemmed from an al­ter­ca­tion Proud­foot had with a man.In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.The mur­der toll for the year now stands at 128.