‘Seeing Sarah and the children’s bodies was very harrowing’

THE stepfather of Newcastle West murder victim, Sarah Hines, has spoken of his horrific ordeal when he went to identify her body and those of her children, Reece, 3, and Amy, 5 months, at the morgue in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

Peter Rolfe told how, one by one, he had to go in and identify each body.

Holding back tears, Mr Rolfe, a native of East London said: “It took just a few seconds to identify each. After identifying each, I had to go outside and then return.