Inquest into father who killed children

An INQUEST has been opened and adjourned into the deaths of a father and his two children, who he stabbed to death before killing himself.

The bodies of Michael Pedersen, 51, his son Ben, seven, and daughter Freya, six, were found next to a Saab 900SE convertible car in a tiny lane at Newton Stacey, near Andover, Hampshire, on Sunday.

Grahame Short, coroner for central Hampshire, heard evidence confirming the identities of the three deceased.