Murder victim received 100 threat messages

A terrified mother handed police 100 menacing text messages from her ex-partner days before he shot her and their two-year-old child dead. Chrissie Chambers, 38, made a formal statement to officers last week about David Oakes' repeated threats to kill her during a bitter row over access to their daughter. Nothing was done and on Monday morning Oakes killed Chambers and young Shania in their home. The killer also shoved his shotgun into the mouth of Shania's half sister, Chelsea, who saved her life by fleeing through a window and on to the kitchen roof. Her mother had urged the ten-year-old to "run, run, save yourself while you can". An inquiry was launched by the Independent Police Complaints Commission after it emerged that officers had been called to the house a number of times over the past two years, It was also claimed that Oakes was subjected to a non-molestation order that prevented him from coming within 100 yards of Chambers. Stuart Flitt, 26, who is a half brother to Chelsea, said police had been given warning after warning. "The last time she made a statement was on Thursday she was making statements to the police all week," he said. "She gave police over 100 text messages but they never took her seriously. These texts threatened to kill her I had been staying round there for her own safety." A close friend of the family said: "The police said to her ‘we cannot do anything until something happens to you'. She was scared she sobbed her heart out to me on Friday. This should not have happened. The police were in the wrong and they knew about this weeks ago." Unemployed Oakes, 50, was under police guard in hospital last night with non-life-threatening injuries after turning the gun on himself at the end of a two-hour stand-off at the semi-detached house in Braintree, Essex. Chelsea's father, Ian Flitt, said he was woken in the early hours of yesterday morning by Chelsea who was banging on his door. Oakes and Chambers had been together for six years before they split seven weeks ago. Earlier she had had a ten-year relationship with Flitt and they had three children, Levi 16, Guy, 11, and Chelsea, who lived with her and Shania. From / Gulf News