* YOU BEEN SNAP * 100 threats to kill: Ex-partner terrorised mother by text before shooting her and their daughter. So why didn't police do anything?

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Shotgun shoved in child's mouth just moment, before murders Watchdog probes claims police knew of volatile situation between parents

A terrified mother handed police 100 menacing text messages from her crazed ex-partner days before he shot her and their two-year-old dead.
Chrissie Chambers, 38, made a formal statement to officers last week about David Oakes’s repeated threats to kill her during a bitter row over access to their daughter.
Nothing was done and yesterday morning Oakes killed Miss Chambers and young Shania in their home.

Christine Chambers with her daughters Shania and Chelsea. Ms Chambers and the two-year-old were shot dead yesterday in Braintree, Essex, apparently just a few hours before a court hearing with the child's father. He was taken to hospital with gunshot injuries"

This aerial view of the street where the shooting took place shows forensics officers and detectives gathered outside"

Survivor: Chelsea managed to escape after Oakes shoved a gun in her mouth"

The killer also shoved his shotgun into the mouth of Shania’s half sister, Chelsea, who saved her life by fleeing through a window and on to the kitchen roof.
Her mother had urged the ten-year-old to ‘run, run, save yourself while you can’.
Last night an inquiry was launched by the Independent Police Complaints Commission after it emerged that officers had been called to the house a number of times over the past two years, 
It was also claimed that Oakes was subjected to a non-molestation order that prevented him from coming within 100 yards of her.
Stuart Flitt, 26, who is a half brother to Chelsea, said police had been given warning after warning.
‘The last time she made a statement was on Thursday – she was making statements to the police all week,’ he said.
‘She gave police over 100 text messages but they never took her seriously.
‘These texts threatened to kill her – I had been staying round there for her own safety.’
A close friend of the family said: ‘The police said to her “We cannot do anything until something happens to you”. She was scared – she sobbed her heart out to me on Friday. This should not have happened.
‘The police were in the wrong and they knew about this weeks ago.’

Police cordon: Officers secured the area following the fatal shooting"

 

Escape route: Chelsea escaped by jumping from an upstairs window"

Unemployed Oakes, 50, was under police guard in hospital last night with non life-threatening injuries after turning the gun on himself at the end of a two-hour stand-off at the semi-detached house in Braintree, Essex.
Chelsea’s father, Ian Flitt, said he was woken in the early hours of yesterday morning by Chelsea who was banging on his door.
The 50-year-old said: ‘She started screaming “He is there at the house with a gun” and ‘He has put it into Chrissie’s mouth”.’
Oakes killed his former partner before turning the gun on Shania. Chelsea climbed through the window on to the kitchen roof, before dropping ten feet to the ground below and running half a mile barefoot in her nightgown to her father’s house. ‘If he was prepared to shoot his own daughter, he would have shot her,’ he said.
Oakes, who has been described as an ‘abusive, jealous woman hater’, embarked on his killing spree hours before a court appearance over the custody of Shania.
He and Miss Chambers had been together for six years before they split seven weeks ago.
She had had a ten-year relationship with Mr Flitt and they had three children, Levi 16, Guy, 11, and Chelsea, who lived with her and Shania.

Alleged double-murderer David Oakes, who is under police guard in hospital, lived in a static caravan at the Steeple Bay Holiday Park in Essex"

Assistant Chief Constable Gary Beautridge of Essex Police said: ‘We have had two years of contact between him [Oakes] and the family and as part of the investigation there will be a full and fundamental review of the circumstances of this contact.’
Amid dramatic scenes outside her house yesterday, a distraught man shouted at officers: ‘You knew this was going to happen, you could have stopped it.’

Searching for evidence: Forensics teams enter the home where the shootings took place"

 

Donna Garrod, 20, said Oakes, who is understood to have been a drug dealer, had been violent toward Miss Chambers for years.
‘One time he kidnapped Shania and police had to escort Christine to his caravan to get her back,’ she said. ‘I have seen her with bruises, a black eye and a broken nose.
‘The police knew what was going on. I was there most times when the police came round. She had been calling them for two weeks.’
Karran Tomlinson, 35, said she had lived next to Miss Chambers for four years and had heard many violent rows during that time – including threats from Oakes to kill Shania.
She said: ‘Dave was a nasty piece of work. He had been beating her up for years. I think she was just too scared to leave him.
‘She finally found the courage to leave him seven weeks ago and now this has happened.’
Police managed to enter the house at around 5.45am, and arrested Oakes who was taken to Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford. Last night a life-long friend of Oakes said he had terrorised women for more than 20 years because of his uncontrollable jealously. The woman, who asked not to be named, said: ‘As soon as I heard I knew it had to be David.
‘He has a vicious temper and is not a man to be crossed.