The Shakoor family home in Harlow, where a doctor and five of her children were killed in a fire, had been burgled police have revealed.
At a press conference today Essex Police said that a laptop computer had been taken from the home in Barn Mead on the night the family died.
Dr Sabah Usmani and son Sohaib, 11, and daughters Hira, 13 and Rayyan, 6, died in the fire on Monday, October 15.
Dr Usmani's husband Dr Abdul Shakoor was the only survivor.
Dr Shakoor appeared at the press conference at Essex Police Headquarters in Chelmsford this morning, where the discovery that the home had been burgled was revealed for the first time.
Shortly after the fire police said they believe it was arson, and had started in the living room of the home.
