The boyfriend of a missing ex-EastEnders actress who is being hunted after three bodies were found in her back garden has reportedly fled to Africa.
Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, is being sought by police after his partner Sian Blake and their two young sons – Zachary, eight, and Amon, four – disappeared three weeks ago.
Yesterday, three partially decomposed bodies were found buried in the back garden of Ms Blake’s home in Erith, Kent, and police issued fresh calls for the whereabouts of Mr Simpson-Kent.
However, last night it was claimed he had fled to Ghana as police face further questions over how they failed to find the three bodies during their 20-day search for the mother-of-two and her children.
Three bodies were discovered in the back garden of Ms Blake’s home in Erith, south east London, yesterday. Pictured above: Undertakers remove one body from the scene and place it into a grey, private ambulance.
Mr Simpson-Kent’s ex-wife Dominique Deblieux last night accused him of ‘dealing in cocaine’ as a source said he fled to Ghana just days before Christmas.
Ms Deblieux told The Sun: ‘He smoked cocaine on many occasions and dealt a little in it too. I’m wondering now whether drugs lie behind what he is supposed to have done in England.’
She claimed that Mr Simpson-Kent has eight children by various different partners, adding: ‘Our marriage was a waste of time. We didn’t get on and he was violent man towards me.
‘He also beat his own daughter Isis. He really didn’t care for his daughter at all.’
Meanwhile, a source told the newspaper that Mr Simpson-Kent travelled to Ghana via Glasgow and Amsterdam, adding that ‘Interpol have been informed and there is an alert out to find him.’
Police have now spoken to neighbours and carried out ‘cell-site’ analysis on his mobile phone to piece together his movements.
They are also examining claims that he was spotted clearing out the house in Erith with bin-liners before he disappeared.
