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Two women arrested in connection with triple killings
7:06pm Monday 10th September 2007
TWO women have been arrested by police investigating the deaths of three people shot dead at a house in Plaw Hatch Close, Bishop's Stortford, almost a fortnight ago.
Seven people have now been arrested by detectives investigating the deaths of father and son Keith Cowell, 52, and Matthew Cowell, 17, at their home.
Tony Dulieu, 33, from Billericay, was also shot dead at the semi-detached property on the evening of Tuesday, August 28.
Two women in the house were seriously injured.
A three-year-old girl who was in the house at the time was unharmed and was later seen by neighbours being carried out by a police officer.
In the latest developments a woman aged in her 20s was arrested in London on Saturday. She has been released on police bail pending further inquiries having been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
A woman in her 40s was arrested in London this afternoon (Monday) on suspicion of assisting an offender.and will be questioned by detectives.
No other details about the arrests are being released, police said.
Three men - including a father and son - have been charged by police investigating the deaths.
Kevan Thakrar, 20, of Lomond Way, Stevenage - who was arrested at Heathrow Airport - is charged with three counts of murder, two of attempted murder and a firearms offence.
His father, Atul Thakrar, 46, also of Lomond Way, Stevenage - who was arrested at an address in Northwood, London - is charged with assisting an offender.
A third man, aged in his 30s, who was arrested in London, has appeared before an unidentified court accused of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
No other details about the man are being released by the police or the court.
A police spokesman said: "The identity of this person is currently withheld to protect the integrity of this case."
More tributes have been laid outside the house, including two floral Arsenal football shirt arrangements in memory of Matthew Cowell.
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