- Police wait to question Damian Rzeszowski, 30, at hospital in St Helier
- Suspect allegedly stabbed his wife Izabela, daughter Kinga and Kacper
- Family friend describes them as 'almost the perfect family'
- Suspected killer 'suicidal over marriage breakdown'
- Neighbours 'fought off mumbling killer with traffic cone'
- Six-year-old girl and 18-month-old boy among the dead
- Attack happened in one of the 'safest places in the western world'
They look like the perfect family – proud parents with their two adorable children.
But last night police were waiting to question the father who is suspected of killing his wife, son, daughter, father-in-law and two family friends in a bloody knife rampage after his marriage broke down.
There were claims that Damian Rzeszowski had discovered his wife Izabela was pregnant with another man’s child.
Victims: Izabela Rzeszowski, top left, the couple's two children daughter Kinga and son Kacper, alongside Damian Rzeszowski, who has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder;
Damian Rzeszowska holds his son Kacper and daughter Kinga;
Sleeping beauties: Kacper and Kinga Rzeszowska sleep soundly at the home in Jersey;
Family man: Two more pictures show Damian Rzeszowski seemingly acting as a caring father with son Kacper,and enjoying a family meal,
Rzeszowski is ‘stable’ under armed guard in hospital in Jersey after trying to stab himself to death when confronted by residents who had heard screams for help and ran out of their homes to find ‘a scene of horror and carnage’.
One described seeing a woman covered in blood, a girl being stabbed and a man with a knife in his back.
It emerged that Rzeszowski had been suicidal after the breakdown of his marriage. One friend said the 30-year-old Polish carpenter had tried to kill himself four weeks ago with an overdose of anti-depressants.
Damian Rzeszowska and his wife sit together in a park. Neighbours claimed today the breakdown of their marriage led to the alleged stabbings;
Pretty: Pictures from the Facebook profile of Izabela Rzeszowski give no indication of the marital problems she was apparently having with husband Damian;
A green tarpaulin covered an area at the rear of the victims' ground floor flat today, with some of the bodies reportedly found in the area;
In Poland the leading tabloid newspaper Fakt reported that police sources had said Rzeszowski murdered his Polish wife as an ‘honour killing’ to avenge her alleged betrayal of him by becoming pregnant by another man.
One source suggested the father of the child was a British man who has since left Jersey. Many Polish families are devout Roman Catholics who place a high value on family values and fidelity within marriage.
Rzeszowski and his wife had continued to live together at their flat in St Helier, the capital of Jersey, despite their marital problems.
Sealed off: The scene in St Helier where six people from two families were stabbed to death yesterday, including three children;
Tragic: A young boy lays flowers in St Helier, Jersey after six people including a six-year-old girl and 18-month-old boy were killed;
Police believe Rzeszowski wiped out three generations of his family during his 15 minutes of mayhem on Sunday, murdering Izabela, 30, daughter Kinga, five, 18-month-old son Kacper and his wife’s father Marek Garstki, 55, hours after they returned to Jersey following a three-week holiday in Poland.
His wife’s best friend, Polish-born Marta De La Haye, 34, and her five-year-old daughter, Julia, also died.
A shocked Alex Wambua, a Co-op supervisor, heard the screams while visiting a friend, Brian Ogesa, living next door to the family.
Tributes: Police collect flowers left at the flat in St Helier, Jersey where a knifeman attacked two families leaving six dead;
Scene: The stabbings took place at a flat in Victoria Crescent in St Helier at around 3pm yesterday afternoon;
He said: ‘I heard a woman screaming ‘‘help, help, help’’. We went downstairs and when we opened the door there was a woman lying there covered in blood.
JERSEY'S HISTORY OF CRIME
St Helier is the capital of the Jersey islands and is popular for tourists and financiers.
It has a low rate of income tax - 20 per cent - shifting its traditional industries of agriculture, fishing and knitwear to be all but sidelined.
It is home to 45 banks and 33,000 registered companies.
In 2008, the island became the focus of one of the largest child abuse investigations ever conducted in the British Isles.
It was launched after more than 100 former residents of the Haut de la Garenne care home came forward to report historic abuse by members of staff.
Police excavated a number of sites at the former Victorian school and orphanage, dubbed by the media as the 'house of horrors', discovering a network of secret underground chambers where victims alleged they were abused.
The multimillion-pound investigation led to a handful of convictions including those of former house parents Morag and Anthony Jordan who were jailed in June for assaulting child residents and former carer Gordon Wateridge who was jailed for a string of sex attacks during the 1970s.
Crime in Jersey reached a 10-year low earlier this year.
Just under 1,600 crimes were recorded in the first five months of 2011, an 11 per cent drop compared to the same period last year and nearly a third less than in 2004, according to The States of Jersey Police.
The force currently employs 236 police officers and about 90 civilian staff.
'She was wearing pink and lying on her back, looking up.
‘Brian went to get some towels and I saw a man chasing this girl. She had a black top on and blonde hair and he was stabbing her from behind.
'He was holding her with his left hand and stabbing her with his right. He was using a six-inch blade, it looked like a kitchen knife.
‘She was not screaming, her mouth was open but no sound was coming. I shouted out, ‘‘what are you doing, what are you doing?’’
‘She saw me and ran towards me. He stopped stabbing her when I shouted. She ran past me and collapsed next to her friend, on Brian’s front step.
'The woman in pink stopped moving. I thought she must be dead. She had blood all over her.
'The one in the black was still making noises and moving. We did what we could.
‘The man was really stabbing himself – he stabbed himself 15 or 20 times – in the chest and arms.
'He was screaming in Polish. He would not make eye contact. He looked like a body builder.
‘He went back inside. When he opened the door I could see an older man with a white goatee beard lying on the ground with a knife in his back.
‘And as the door swung open I could see a little girl covered in blood. I could not see the colour of her clothes, there was so much blood, but I could make out she was blonde.’
Mr Ogesa, 24, said: ‘I picked up a traffic cone that was nearby and was going to use it to shield the woman and defend myself.
‘But the man then went berserk and stabbed himself in the chest several times, like he was trying to kill himself, before running back indoors.’
Eye-witnesses saw bodies being brought out of the house that were clearly those of children;
Investigation: A forensic officer walks close to the scene, while armed police stood guard following the killings;
A crowd gathered outside the address in St Helier as the police investigation into what happened got underway;
Police say a violent attack like this in quiet Jersey is extremely rare, especially when it happened in such a secluded place like Victoria Crescent, St Helier;
Mr Garstki lived with the family and worked at a CD packing company.
Marta married Craig De La Haye, from Jersey, six years ago.
Rzeszowski’s closest friend claimed yesterday that he embarked on his killing spree just weeks after a suicide attempt following the breakdown of his marriage.
‘Five weeks ago Damian seemed very down,’ the friend said. ‘And four weeks ago he took 80 pills, anti-depressants.
‘I could not believe it when the hospital let him out the next day. He said, “I need help”.
'I went to his flat and looked after his kids so his wife could go to the hospital to see him. I don’t know why the relationship was breaking down.
‘He said they were going to be fine and that his family were going to go on holiday to Poland. They just got back on Sunday.
'They had been away for two or three weeks. They arrived in the morning and the killing started at 3pm.’
The couple had been married for eight years.
But Izabela had told of her frustration with her marriage in posts on her Facebook account at the beginning of July.
On July 8 she wrote: ‘Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.’
One minute later she added: ‘A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.’
On July 12 she wrote: ‘Few men get what they desire and few deserve what they get.’
But after Rzeszowski’s overdose she changed her Facebook ;
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