Police find body of two-year-old girl at house after being called over concern for youngster's welfare

A two-year-old girl has been found dead at a home in Oxfordshire after police were called there, it was revealed today.
An investigation has been launched after the child’s body was found in Bicester this morning, Thames Valley Police said.
Officers were called to a residential address after receiving a report at 10.01am saying someone feared for the child’s welfare.

Police at the scene where the body of a two-year-old child has been found at a home after police were called to the address

An investigation has been launched after the child's body was found in Bicester, Oxfordshire, this morning

Detective Chief Inspector Ian Hunter said: 'Officers launched an investigation which is at a very early stage, so there is no further information that can be given at this time.
'However, we do not believe there is a risk posed to the wider community.'
A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said the death is being treated as unexplained.
He added: 'We are looking to try to establish the cause and from that we will do what we need to do.'

Shocked neighbours were at a loss as to what had happened at the property or how they failed to hear or see anything before police arrived.
Kevin Marshall, aged 28 years, has lived immediately next door to the sealed-off property for the whole of his life.
He said: 'The first I knew was this morning when the police were turning up. I didn't even know what was going on.
'When all the barriers started going up I thought it was something serious. I've just been looking out the window all day. It's sad, with a two-year-old. It's never going to be nice.'

A pair of forensic officers leave the home in Bicester as they carried out investigations into the two-year-old's death

He said of the occupants: 'They lived there for about 10 years and maybe someone else rented it for a year. I don't really know the lady. Her name is Angela. She kept herself to herself. I said hello to her a few times.'
He said he was aware of her having a child but had not seen a partner. 'There was a guy who apparently lived there, a Moroccan guy,' he said.
Neighbours said Angela was a large Afro-Caribbean woman. Paul Rummery-Blackford, who lives nearby, had seen the mother and daughter before.
He said: 'Last year she had a gentleman there, then she moved out and rented the property out. 'I wasn't aware that she was back until she asked me about her car. I'm a part-time mechanic and work from home and she was finding out if I could work on the car.'
She said: 'I've moved back and the tenants have moved out'. She said she was moving on. She seemed quite a bubbly woman. I'm shocked, I really am. I'm shaken up.'
Local mothers returning with their children from school said they only knew of the woman because she would park her car partly blocking the pavement. 'We just saw them driving in and out,' one said.
'Nobody knows what happened and it's left quite a sinister feel on the street but it could be something completely innocent.'
One said she had heard shouting last night but thought it might be her neighbours in their garden. Immediate neighbours of the toddler's home did not report hearing anything untoward.
Today forensics experts were coming and going from the property via a large blue tent on the front drive.
Detectives also visited the address, on the corner of a quiet residential street and a busy main road. The house was taped off with police community support officers standing guard.

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