A 20-year-old student who was stabbed in the neck and died after he was attacked by a man who had gate-crashed a house party will be laid to rest on Sunday.

A father is believed to have murdered his wife and two teenage daughters before killing himself.

A married couple and their two teenage daughters have been named as the four people whose bodies were found at a house.

Police paid tribute today to an officer who helped save hundreds of people on his remote island in India during the tsunami disaster, then was swept away while trying to help one last person, an old woman who asked him to retrieve her handbag.